The story goes that Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman was tracking the Doolin Gang in January 1895. He entered a dugout on the Dunn ranch, looking...
Tilghman’s Tall Tale
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Western Events for September 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Locals First: Western Art of Jim Bagley & Jenny Gummersall Durango,...
Gunfighter: Partly Truth and Partly Fiction
Gunfighters were partly man and partly myth. In legend and sometimes in real life they stood along as lone crusaders or knight-errants who fought...
Did the Wild West era have any famous deaf people?
Chris Graefser St. Peters, Missouri One who comes to mind is Erastus “Deaf” Smith, one of the most celebrated patriots in the Texas fight for...
Getting to Know Doc and Wyatt
Allen Barra: You have now written two superb, hefty novels involving Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. When did the idea first come to you to write...
A Blundered Billy Legend
The story goes that Catholic nun Sister Blandina Segale had a run-in with Billy the Kid back in the 1870s. He was angry when physicians in Trinidad,...
Old West Jails
Hollywood movie sets built their jails pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol...
A Short Storm at a Deadly Address
On February 25, 1881, after an earlier altercation inside, faro dealer Luke Short, shot and killed fellow gambler Charley Storms outside the ...
Top 6 Art Museums of the West 2016
Western art remains hot. Just look no further than the success of art shows such as the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix...
The Gentleman Train Robber
Eugene Bunch was a gentleman train robber, a former newspaper editor and teacher who turned to crime in 1888. He held up six trains in Texas,...
The Shoots Far Gun
American Indians called the Sharps buffalo rifle the “Shoots Far Gun,” or the gun that “shoots today and kills tomorrow,” and for good reason. In...
Wyatt Earp Myth Busters
Did Wyatt Arrest Ben Thompson? This alleged arrest has driven researchers batty for decades. The most famous account appears in Stuart Lake’s Wyatt...