Fred Lambert was a New Mexico deputy sheriff at age 16, later a sheriff, a member of the state’s mounted police, rancher, poet, and artist. He...
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Articles
Lighting the Fuse
On March 17, 1876, U.S. Army Col. Joseph J. Reynolds led six cavalry companies on an early morning attack against a Northern Cheyenne village on the...
The Life and Legend of Hugh O’Brian
One role defined Hugh O’Brian’s acting career—the title character in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. The adult Western premiered on ABC on...
If You Can’t Lynch a Cattle Thief, There’s Always Plan B
If there was anything unforgiving in the old west, it was cattle stealing. (Unless you were one of the big outfits that could get away with...
Dora Hand
Her name was Dora Hand, or Fannie Keenan. Dodge City knew her by both names and under two wholly different identities. Wyatt Earp biographer, Stuart...
Why Would an Old West Saloon have White Towels on the Front of the Bar?
Why would an Old West saloon have white towels on the front of the bar? Chuck Terry, Columbus, Ohio Bartenders hung towels on the bar so that...
So Billy Sidles Up to the Bar Next to Wyatt
Here's a historical question not often asked: Did Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp almost shoot it out over drinks the night of November 27, 1879 in the...
Bitter Friends
Artist Frederick Remington and writer Owen Wister were close friends, starting with their first meeting at Yellowstone in 1893. Both were Easterners...
The Last Stage Robbery?
The nation’s last stagecoach robbery took place on December 5, 1916, at Nevada’s Jarbidge Canyon. Calling it a “stagecoach” robbery is an...
The Doomed Prince of the Pistoleers
James Butler Hickok, born on a farm in northern Illinois in 1837, leaves home at age 18, gravitating to Kansas Territory, with his brother Lorenzo,...
Deadwood Dick: The Man Who Never Was
Kit Carson, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were real-life people who were made larger-than-life to dozens of dime novelists...
Through Yavapai-Apache Eyes
New Year's Day on January 1 is normally celebrated as the start of a new year, a day off from work and a day to eat black eyed peas for good luck....