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Who is Fred Harman?
Who is Fred Harman? Walter Wehlauch Jacksonville, Florida Fred Harman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1902, but his family moved to Pagosa...
The Oatman Massacre
Roys Oatman and his family have just finished hauling their belongings up a rocky grade to a bluff on the south side of the Gila River. At the end...
Stories of the Oregon Trail
When the travelers loaded their wooden wheeled wagons and hitched oxen or mules to begin a nearly 2,000-mile journey from the Missouri River to...
What Happened to the Scalp that “Buffalo Bill” Cody Took from Cheyenne Warrior Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek in 1876?
What happened to the scalp that “Buffalo Bill” Cody took from Cheyenne warrior Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek in 1876? Richard Hill Santa Rosa,...
Silver Screen Icons
Scott Eyman’s Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart (Simon & Schuster, $29) is a sensitive, deeply...
Who Killed the Texas Terror?
Undeniably the darkest hour in Texas’s history, the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877, turned the Lone Star State into a bloody and...
America’s First Cavalry Blade
In 1833, the U.S. Army formed its first official mounted regiments, the First and Second Dragoons. These soldiers rode to battle, then dismounted to...
DVD Review: Painted Woman
Painted Woman (Echo Bridge; $15.99). After experiencing both the security and shame of a kept woman, Julie (played by Stef Dawson) knows too much...
Gem City of the Plains
No one knows what happened to Jacques La Ramée, except that he disappeared on what would become the Laramie River in about 1821. Some suspect...
El Paso Saddlery Gunleather
While many companies make Old West-style gunleather, only a handful make true museum-quality reproductions of the holsters and gun belts worn during...
Big Year for Custer Guns
The year 2017 turned out to be an excellent year to collect firearms tied to a storied icon, George Custer, and his most famous (and fateful)...