Thanks to an 1877 Omaha Herald article, we know how we should have behaved if we'd taken a stagecoach in the old west. First, we were advised that...
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Jim Parker’s Last Night
This much is known: Jim Parker was hanged in Prescott, AZ on June 3, 1898, for the murder of Assistant District Attorney Lee Norris during a...
The Son Rises on AMC
On April 8, a new series, The Son, will premiere on AMC. Starring Pierce Brosnan, the four-time James Bond who rode West in 2006’s Seraphim Falls,...
The Canoa Land Grant Ranch
The San Ignacio de la Canoa land grant is one of the oldest and most interesting in Arizona. The Canoa, located south of Tucson in the fertile...
Father of the American JACKASS
George Washington is often mistakenly referred to as the “Father of the American Mule.” He is also credited with being the first to bring a jackass...
Clay O’Brien Cooper
John Wayne thought Clay O’Brien Cooper was too small to play one of The Cowboys—until the pint-sized nine-year-old lassoed and dumped him on the...
Building Your Western Library
“A Man’s Dreams Must Exceed His Fears” John T. Wayne, the Arkansas author who shares a likeness and the name of the famous Western actor was born...
The History of Mules
“There is no more useful or willing animal than the Mule. And perhaps there is no other animal so much abused, or so little cared for. Popular...
Finding the Great Canyon On the Gila River
The dramatic Seth Eastman watercolor of a canyon on the Gila River of Arizona, circa 1853, is familiar to many students of Western exploration in...
Mother Maggard Saves the Day
The future city of Denver had its modern beginnings in the summer of 1858 when gold was found on Cherry Creek where the stream neared the South...
Frontier Texas
In Nathan Jennings’ Riding for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865, (University of North Texas Press, $32.95),...
Don’t Bury Me Alive
Victorians had a bizarre fixation with premature burial—a fear that wasn't just hysterical, because poor medical knowledge meant that sometimes...