The history of the Texas Rangers is the story of real people surrounded by the legends and the legacies of that historic organization. In Texas...
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A Vigilante Pays the Price
Nat Kinney led the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group that patrolled the Missouri Ozarks in the mid to late 1880s. A farmer, merchant and...
Those Old B-Westerns
Someone asked me the other day what it was like watching those B-Western movies in those little, cracker box theaters during the 1940s. Everyone who...
America’s Most Famous Firehouse?
If Las Vegas, New Mexico, isn’t careful, this heritage town is going to end up with the most famous firehouse in America. The E. Romero Hose &...
Discover Texas Western Heritage
Experience the thundering hooves, pistol shots, jumping and slashing sabers of the old horse soldiers at the Regional Cavalry Competition at Fort...
A Treaty Goes Up in Smoke
For two long years, starting in 1866, the U.S. Army tried to build and maintain forts in the Powder River Country in present-day Wyoming. The plan:...
Prescott’s Big Fire
Fires were always a menace to frontier towns. The boomtowns of Prescott, Bisbee, Jerome, and Tombstone all burned to the ground more than once...
The Brutal Truth About Most Billy the Kid Wannabes
We get a “new” Billy the Kid photo sent to us almost every week. The photo of the cocky-looking gent on the opposite page is a good example. Some...
Paladin – Hired Gun With Morals and a Conscience
From 1957 to 1963 Paladin, a hired gun with morals and a conscience, was one of the most popular shows on television trailing only Gunsmoke and...
Oatman Genesis
Did John Moss, friend of Mohave leader Irataba, name the Oatman mine and, hence, the town after Olive Oatman? Or was the town originally called...
The Barlow Road
The earliest travelers to Oregon Country abandoned their wagons at The Dalles and proceeded on down the Columbia River on rafts that took them to...
Building Your Western Library With Kevin Hogge
Kevin Hogge is an Old West enthusiast who is part of an elite group of riders and historians who have ridden the trails of Wyatt Earp in southern...