In Patrick Dearen’s Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River (University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95), the author documents the many challenges...
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Classic Gunfights: Die Hard
“The Sheriff is on the Warpath” November 1, 1867 Sheriff Harry Morse “is on the warpath....” Or so declares the Oakland Daily News. The sheriff of...
A Different Blazing Saddles?
John Wayne almost made an appearance in the comedy Western, Blazing Saddles. Director Mel Brooks was eating lunch in the Warner Bros. commissary one...
Did most Old West lawmen always carry guns?
Did most Old West lawmen always carry guns? Allen Pogue Flagstaff, Arizona Most Old West lawmen went unarmed, much of the time. Marshal Tom “Bear...
Yellowstone’s Early Explorer
Charles W. Cook participated in several important episodes of Montana’s frontier history, but sometimes his accomplishments seem destined to remain...
The Trapper’s Rendezvous
Like gold dust on the mining frontier, beaver fur was the medium of exchange in the mountains. Unique to the American industry was the rendezvous...
Virgil’s Sixgun
Although the infamous Gunfight Near the OK Corral is arguably the best known and most written about shootout in the Old West, little is known about...
Hugh O’Brian: Brave, Courageous And More Than A Little Bold
Actor, movie star, humanitarian and world-class cut-up, Hugh O'Brian died this morning at age 91. O'Brian, who had several health issues, died with...
Not Bad for a Chronic Yawner
In the Apache custom, his parents named him Goyathlay for a particular trait: “he who yawns.” Born near the headwaters of the Gila River, he grew up...
Gene Wilder
The late Gene Wilder wasn’t the original Waco Kid in the comedy “Blazing Saddles.” Veteran actor Gig Young got the role of the drunken gunfighter....
Riding with the Master
"The soldier, the cowboy and the rancher, the Indian, the horses and the cattle of the plains will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily...
Mogollon Rim
Arizona is known for its number of hard-to-pronounce place names. A story is told of a tourist who was bound and determined to learn the correct...