Belly up to the bar pards and bend an elbow. Any friendly barkeep at the local cantina or saloon, some of which became legendary like the Bird Cage...
Johnny Lingo: Rot Gut, Sheep Wash, Chain Lightning
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Why Hasn’t Anyone Written a Book about the Lone Ranger being a Black Man?
Why hasn’t anyone written a book about the Lone Ranger being a black man? Stan Johnson — Riverside, California. At least one book claims that Deputy...
Locked And Loaded
Western history and fiction publishers have had an outstanding year across all genres and categories. With the growth in electronic and audio books,...
Wanted, Dead or Alive
It may have been the name of a TV Western, but few officials actually used “wanted, dead or alive” rewards to track down criminals. Money was...
Arizona’s Most Historic Place?
John Wayne had a favorite room. Margaret Mitchell and Zane Grey came to rejuvenate. President Lyndon Johnson loved the stables. The Marshall Plan...
Lawman Bill Cruger
Bill Cruger was a tough lawman in Shackleford County, Texas (which included Fort Griffin) in the 1870s. He was originally hired as a deputy by...
Franciscan Trailblazers
For many, the mention of Spanish padres evokes images of bucolic missions stretching far and wide across the Borderlands. Indeed, priests from...
Solitary, Singular Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard died July 27, 2017, at the age of 73, after a hard-fought battle with A.L.S. His understated, natural style recalled actor Gary ...
Colorado Charlie Utter
Colorado Charlie Utter is best known as Wild Bill Hickok’s best friend, the man who led the wagon train that brought the gunfighter (and Calamity...
Last of the B Westerns
Many of the early day silver screen cowboys had been real working cowboys earning $30 a month and found on western ranches from Texas to Montana....
Another Trail of Tears
Before the forced removal of Cherokees from their tribal lands between 1836 and 1839—the so-called “Trail of Tears”—another tribe, the Seminoles,...
Charlie Rich Deals a Deadly Hand
Charlie Rich was just 17 when he dealt the cards in a poker game at Nuttall & Mann’s Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. On August 2, 1876,...