The Old West was quickly fading from reality into myth by the mid-1920’s. Most of the old time gunfighters had gone on to their great reward and...
Uncle Jim’s Last Gunfight
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Articles
Frank Hamer’s Recuperation in Pecos
Future Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was severely wounded by Dan McSween in 1900, after Hamer refused to carry out a hit for the rancher. Hamer needed...
Legendary Lady of the West
The story of the legendary black American women who delivered the U.S. mail in Cascade, Montana, in the 1890s, rises from the pages of author Erich...
Struggling for a Dream
In the latter quarter of the 20th century, the only person indispensable to Western film was Clint Eastwood. Losing a Peckinpah or a Leone would...
In Frederic Remington’s Aiding a Comrade, what is the name of the holder that carries two of the men’s rifles on the front of their saddles?
Dan C. Johnson West Jefferson, North Carolina They are called carbine sockets. They came out during the Civil War and were used well into the 1880s....
Pancho’s Pension
After almost ten years of fighting, Pancho Villa sends a telegram to President Huerta requesting amnesty. Huerta agrees and gives Villa a huge...
Building Your Western Library
Tom Collins—theater historian and presenter—has enjoyed a lifelong passion for acting and directing. At the University of Wisconsin-Platteville he...
The Lost Adams Diggings
Somewhere out in these rugged mountains of eastern Arizona, just maybe lies the greatest lost mine of them all…the Lost Adams Diggings. Because of...
A Bloody Ranger Battle
The Conner family had been running roughshod in east Texas for several years when Texas Rangers went after them. In late March 1887, the two groups...
Klondike Dining with the Earps
The Klondike and Yukon Rivers, bordering Alaska and Canada, were the final frontier for 19th-century miners out West. In the late 1890s, thousands...
The Strangest Adoption in the History of the West
No more unusual story has emerged from Texas’s long and bitter struggle for independence than that of John Christopher Columbus Hill. The account of...
The Escape of Augustine Chacon
Augustine Chacon was one of the last of the hard-riding desperadoes who rode the outlaw trail in the closing days of the 19th century. He was a...