According to legend, Wyatt Earp single-handedly held off a mob of Tombstone miners attempting to string up a gambler. The actual facts are these: on...
Wyatt Earp vs. a Tombstone Mob
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A Screenwriter’s Five Indispensable Western Books
Brandon Boyce grew up in Virginia and New Jersey before his family moved west to Kansas City, Missouri. After high school, he moved to Los Angeles...
Curtiz Hands the Reins to Wayne
Michael Curtiz was a top Hollywood director, helming classics like Casablanca, White Christmas, and The Adventures of Robin Hood. In 1960, he was...
John P. Langellier
Without the 1950s’ ABC series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, I probably would have taken an entirely different career path, especially after our...
The Trapper’s Clothing
The trapper’s clothes were homemade and usually made from durable buckskin. During meals he rubbed his greasy hands over his leathers, something in...
He Died in Style
Marion Hedgepeth was a train robber and outlaw with style. “The Debonair Bandit” usually wore a suit, cravat, bowler hat and had neatly polished...
The Arizona Rangers vs. Criminals
Arizona has had three different Arizona Ranger law enforcement groups. The first Ranger group was created in 1860, the second in 1882 and the third...
Ford Set the Bar High
The Buffalo Soldier and his crucial role in the post-Civil War West went unacknowledged for so long in history annals that his story was rarely told...
The Fall Creek Massacre
The Fall Creek Massacre was all too typical—seven whites murdering nine Indians in Indiana in 1824, for no apparent reason. The outcome set a...
John L. Sullivan Visits Tombstone
On Saturday, March 23, 1884 the undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World John L. Sullivan, traveling by rail on a coast to coast...
Hot Brand: Red River Rides Again
Award-winning author Johnny D. Bogg’s gift for memorable storytelling rises to its highest level in Return to Red River (Kensington, $7.99), the...
Roy Gardner, Last of the Lone Wolf Bandits
It’s been said the Lone Wolf Bandit stole more than $350,000 but perhaps he should be better-remembered as the “Houdini of Escape Artists.”...