Historian Juanita Brooks had quite the history herself. Born in 1898 and educated at both Brigham Young and Columbia Universities, she began...
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Articles
Good Words of Advice as the Noose Awaits
Quick, if you were about to be hung, what would you want to write as your last letter? Outlaw Tom Bell faced that question on October 4, 1856. Bell...
Tales of Pat Garrett
Reading John LeMay’s Tall Tales & Half Truths of Pat Garrett (The History Press, $21.99) you get the idea everyone living in New Mexico in the...
October was Black Bart’s Favorite
OCTOBER WAS BLACK BART'S FAVORITE: Over his eight-year-28-robbery spree, Black Bart most loved robbing stagecoaches in October. Maybe it was the...
DVD Review: Cemetery Without Crosses
A war between families comes to a head when a man is lynched in front of his wife (played by Michéle Mercier). Only an old beau (Robert Hossein)...
The Killing that Put Hardin on the Run
Charlie M. Webb’s claim to fame came when his plan to kill notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin backfired. Webb first appeared on the Texas scene...
Mountain Charley
Ever wondered how hard it was to be a woman in the Old West? Just ask Mountain Charley. Or should we say, Elsa Jane, a teenaged widow with two...
Inspired by Deadly Work
In spring 1913, famed writer Zane Grey spent several days with Texas Rangers in El Paso. Grey heard plenty of stories that he incorporated into his...
It Happened in Globe
Globe was one of the Old West’s richest mining camps. It also produced some famous Arizona people including its first governor, George W. P. Smith...
A Photo has Always Been Worth a Thousand Words
A photo has always been worth a thousand words and that is perhaps no where more pertinent than in the Old West. We have but a few images of some...
A Clear Path to a Clear Fork Post
Jim Alexander has always liked November. It’s his birth month—he turns 82 on November 7—and he shares the month with the focus of his life’s work,...
Forgotten Old West Character: Bose Ikard
Bose Ikard is a forgotten Old West characters—and shouldn’t be. Born a slave in Mississippi in 1843, Ikard’s owner moved his operation to Texas in...