Years ago, at a friend’s 50th birthday party, I gave him a Red Ryder 50th Anniversary, special edition BB rifle. Despite his being showered with a...
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Roy Daugherty aka Arkansas Tom Jones
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory provided some of the West’s wildest history including one of its deadliest gunfights. The battle occurred on...
The Angel of Tombstone–Nellie Cashman
Nellie Cashman was known as the Angel of Tombstone for her compassionate ways. In 1884, she ministered to the men responsible for the Bisbee...
Tombstone Cow-boy: Johnny Barnes
Johnny Barnes was one of the Cow-boys in the Tombstone trouble times, and he reportedly shot and wounded Virgil Earp in late 1881. He was with them...
A Bozeman Christmas
On Christmas Day in 1867, three years after the founding of this fair Montana Territory city, Bozeman was elected by citizens as the county seat....
Red Jack Almer
On August 10th, 1883 the Florence-Globe Stagecoach was robbed about two miles from the remote Riverside Station on the Gila River by the Red Jack...
The Bayou City
In August of 1836, brothers Augustus and John Allen created a new town they hoped would be the “great interior commercial emporium of Texas.” They...
The Leg I Left Behind Me Part 2
Santa Anna’s eccentricity was only exceeded by his greed and extravagance. He outfitted his own private army, gave an endless round of celebrations,...
Spirit of the West
Historian Dr. Larry Len Peterson’s tenth book, American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West (Sweetgrass Books, $34.95), is his...
The Kinder, Gentler, Sam Peckinpah
Hollywood’s famous Chinese theatre celebrated L.Q. Jones’s 90th birthday with a screening of the controversial masterpiece that saddled Sam...
Dallas Lawman Down
Dallas County (TX) Deputy Sheriff Charles Nichols was the first Dallas area lawman to die in the line of duty. And his killer was famed then and...
The Leg I Left Behind Me Part I
The Girl I Left Behind Me, a long-standing popular folk tune and song, comes from Dublin, Ireland and is dated by most authorities to the late 18th...