In the 1860s, Upper Lake, California, was a farming and mill town, but because of Clear Lake’s boating and fishing, and the healthful benefits of...
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The Siege of Flagstaff
One of those Post-Indian Wars gunfights, almost lost in history occurred in northern Arizona on November 11th, 1899, eight years after Wounded Knee....
Bragging Rights for a Badman
Andy Blevins—alias Andy Cooper—was a Texas hardcase who specialized in rustling cattle. But things got too hot for Andy, his father and brothers so...
2018 WWA Spur Award Winners
Since 1953, Western Writers of America has promoted and honored the best in Western literature with the annual Spur Awards, selected by a panel of...
The Folk Bandit
Western outlaws were the product of a lawless and violent era during the post-Civil War days and the lust for land and gold. They their infancy...
How come C.S. Fly didn’t take Photos of the Tombstone Street Fight?
How come C.S. Fly didn’t take photos of the Tombstone street fight? Robert Matters Hilliard, Ohio The Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral started...
Riding the Prescott-Santa Fe Stage
I’ve solved one Old West mystery. You want to know why the Star Line Transportation Company, a k a the Prescott-Santa Fe stage line, only lasted...
Gun Notches for Rawhide Jake
Jonas V. Brighton—aka Rawhide Jake—is best known to history for killing Ike Clanton in 1887 as the outlaw tried to escape arrest. But Brighton had a...
Ike Clanton finally meets his Waterloo
Ike and Fin Clanton, who had survived the Cochise County War against Wyatt Earp and his brothers five years earlier, had moved their operations to...
What History Has Taught Me: Roy Young
After 17 years as a high school teacher, band director and varsity baseball coach in his home state of Oklahoma, Roy Young opened stores...
A Broken Nose, A Broken Life
John Fletcher Fairchild’s lawman career ended because of a punch in the nose. Seriously. Family lore says Wyatt Earp broke Fairchild’s nose in a...
What was the Fare for Railroads and Stagecoaches?
What was the fare for railroads and stagecoaches? Michael Hutchinson Frankfort, Indiana All stagecoach riders paid a price in physical discomfort,...