Edmond O’Brien is probably best known for his roles in a number of film noir movies and television shows. But he made an impact in two notable...
O’Brien at the Movies
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Was Josh Randall’s Wanted: Dead or Alive ”Mare’s Leg” Winchester based on a real Old West Gun?
Was Josh Randall’s Wanted: Dead or Alive ”Mare’s Leg” Winchester based on a real Old West gun? Glen Banse Brick Township, New Jersey “Mare’s Leg”...
Daylight Saving Time
Arizona has always taken pride in marching to the beat of its own drum. For example, all but one of contiguous United States went off Daylight...
The Hunt for Zwing
Zwing Hunt—yes, that was probably his real name—ran with the Cochise County Cow-boys during their heyday. It turned out to be his undoing. In March...
Nevada’s Silver Roots
What do San Francisco real estate, George Hearst, Mark Twain, the Civil War and the Nobel Peace Prize have in common? The answer: Nevada’s famous...
Mormon War’s Grand Views
With a blast of the steam whistle, a small steamboat cast off from California’s Fort Yuma during the early days of 1858 to explore the Colorado...
A Respected Lawman
Leander McNelly had the distinction of serving as a captain of both the Texas State Police and a special force of the Texas Rangers. It was a...
The End of the West
Since 1988, when award-winning author Richard White published his first volume of history, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and...
The Unpopular Governor of Texas
Edmund J. Davis was a Reconstruction governor of Texas—and not a popular one. He was a former Union officer who joined the Republican Party after...
A Frontier Favorite Lever Gun
All 1873 Winchester rifles have octagonal barrels and the carbines have round barrels, right? Well, no, as a special option about one out of every...
John Ford and Harry Goulding
The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression. Harry Goulding, proprietor of Goulding’s trading post on the...
Bring ‘Em Back Alive?
Jack Helm is probably best known for being a victim of Texas’ Sutton-Taylor Feud (John Wesley Hardin was one of the gunmen involved in his death—see...