Jim Turner was the eighth generation living in the family’s Connecticut home until they moved to Tucson in 1951 because of his asthma. He has been...
Building Your Western Library: Jim Turner
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Articles
When Lawmen Got It Wrong
A gunfight outside Blackwell, Oklahoma just proved that lawmen didn’t always get the right man. Outlaws Ben Craven and Dick Ainsley had been casing...
Texas Feud
The last major Texas feud has been explored in No Hope For Heaven, No Fear of Hell by James C. Kearney, Bill Stein and James Smallwood (University...
Charge Into The Old West!
A century and a half ago, the nation was on the move. Just two years after the Civil War, millions of veterans and their families on both sides of...
Chief Dan George
Chief Dan George is perhaps best known for playing Old Lodge Skins in the 1970 Western Little Big Man. He was not the first choice. Director Arthur...
Did The “Buntline Special” Gun Really Exist?
Did the “Buntline Special” gun really exist? Ralph G. Swanson Prescott, Arizona Western historians disagree over whether Wyatt Earp ever carried a...
Arizona’s Most Famous Card Game
Arizona is a place that loves its myths and legends. Sometimes it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction. Such is the story of Corydon Cooley and...
A First for Custer Firearms
The “first firearm forensically proven to have been used” at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, as the auction catalog noted, hammered down for a...
The Tombstone Collector
Jim Melikian was window shopping. Normally, the 61-year-old Arizona businessman scoured auction catalogs for items he’s been collecting since he...
DeForest Kelley
Believe it or not, DeForest Kelley almost had one more shot—he did four--at appearing in a Tombstone-related movie or TV episode. He’d played Morgan...
Woman of Gold
Every tale of the Klondike gold rush of 1897-’98 begins with the discovery of gold by George Carmack and his Tagish brothers-in-law. In Wealth...
A Grave Discovery
When Ronnie Atnip returned on another field trip, he was drawn to the Sears-Doss Cemetery located near the Hardin farm. To his surprise, Atnip found...