He is a troublemaker, a transformer and a noble trickster. He is also the prince of chaos. In legend, the Coyote is revered by many In-din tribes...
The Noble Trickster
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A Holdup for the Ages
Just after 6:30 p.m. on October 6, 1866, two passengers aboard an Ohio & Mississippi train put on pasteboard masks—one black, one white—pulled...
The Storied Hashknife
With the arrival of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1881 Holbrook, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado River in...
What do you have to say about my favorite movie cowboy, Lash LaRue?
Larry Harris Alexandria, Virginia I used to devour those Lash LaRue comics when I was about 10 or 11. He was quite the silver screen hero too....
Building Your Western Library: Mike Cox
Third-generation journalist Mike Cox was born in Amarillo and raised in Austin. After 20 years of working for newspapers, he went to work for the...
The Apache Scouts
One of the smartest strategic moves by the Frontier Army during the Indian Wars was to enlist Natives as scouts. On the Plains, tribes like the...
Did American Indians have some version of bathrooms or latrines?
Did American Indians have some version of bathrooms or latrines? James White Goliad, Texas American Indians generally did their “business” in the...
Virgil’s Arm Flapping in the Breeze
On the night of December 28, 1881, City Marshal Virgil Earp was ambushed and hit with buckshot crossing the intersection of Fifth and Allen Streets...
What History Has Taught Me
The father of six kids, Don Collier is well known as a Westerns actor. He broke into the genre in 1948, graduating from an extra in Massacre River...
Rowdy Joe vs. William Red Beard
Old West gunfights occasionally inflicted collateral damage. That was the case in October 1873 when rival saloon owners “Rowdy Joe” Lowe (pictured)...
Honeymoon Trail
There were many trails that crossed Arizona in the early days including the Butterfield Overland Stage, the Gila Trail and the Beale Camel Road and...
The Tombstone Mystique
What’s it mean to market authenticity? That’s the question Kara McCormack, a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Thinking Matters Program at...