What was the most common gunbelt carried out West? Michael C. Westlund - Clarkdale, Arizona. The most common late frontier-era gun rig was the...
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Gunman Barney Riggs
Barney Riggs was a gunman of note, with a number of killings in the Southwest to his name between 1874 and 1902. In 1886, he killed Richard Hudson,...
A Hell-Bent Ride on a Snortin’ Prince of a Mule
In July 1867, leaders of the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes gathered on Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory to plan the next phase in their most...
Jim Miller Takes Out a Lawman
Ben Collins was a respected Indian policeman turned deputy U.S. marshal in Oklahoma Territory in the 1890s. In 1903, he shot and crippled Port...
“Up And Down This Road I Go”
The iron horse evokes images of smoke and cinders billowing from a steam locomotive stack as it sails down the trackless wastes of the frontier....
Beeves, Barons, and Barbed Wire
In 2017, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas towns are celebrating the sesquicentennial of the first cattle drives on the Chisholm Trail—from South Texas,...
Mollie’s Miracle
The rough and tumble days of Tombstone, life in nearby silver mines and that defiant stare of Geronimo’s all live on in black-and-white images...
Two Tom Horns in Film
William Goldman may be best known to Western fans as the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Ten years later, in 1979, he wrote a script...
Who Assassinated Orly “Ranger” Jones and John A. Tisdale?
One of the big questions about Wyoming’s Johnson County War: who assassinated Orly “Ranger” Jones and John A. Tisdale? Both were small ranchers,...
I Killed John Wayne
Who would’ve guessed that, in the last decade of his life, a lung lost to cancer, John “Duke” Wayne would star in a dozen films, three of...
The Crazy Legend of Red Ghost
As the story goes, a military commander lashed a camel-shy soldier to the back of a camel and sent him off to learn how to ride. Depending on who is...
Tombstone Is Shaking!
On May 3, 1887, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Dr. George E. Goodfellow examined his last patient of the day, a child. He heard the earthquake...