Sonoran bandito, Augustine Chacon, alias Peluda (“The Hairy One”), robbed and killed in Arizona, and then hid out in the Sierra Madres until his...
The Hairy One Hangs
read more
Articles
How dangerous was Kid Curry?
Jonathan Smith Rodenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany An outlaw who rode with Robert “Butch Cassidy” Parker and Harry “Sundance Kid” Longabaugh, Kid...
The Amazing Air Rifle of Meriwether Lewis
The “Corps of Discovery,” led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark was one of the most incredible journeys in history. It numbered less than forty...
Vaquero: Master Horsemen of the Southwest
The American cowboy owes so much to the master horsemen—Mexican vaqueros—who were rounding up cattle on horseback several hundreds of years before...
The Irish at the Alamo
The Alamo’s Forgotten Defenders—The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution by Phillip Thomas Tucker (Savas Beatie LLC, $29.95)...
Tombstone’s Schieffelin Hall
It was June 1881 when Al Schieffelin—brother of Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin—opened the theater and opera house that carried their last name....
Western Events for July 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOW Imaging the American West: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Kit Carson Dime Novel Hero
It was a fortuitous chance meeting for Kit Carson and John C. Fremont. Had there been no John C. Fremont there might never have been a Kit Carson...
Named By Their Enemies
The Spanish asked the Zunis who those renegades were who were running off with all their horses and a Zuni said, “Enemies,” which sounded to the...
In Mary Doria Russell’s Doc, the dentist treats Wyatt Earp who is missing two front teeth. Is that true?
Steve Barringer Phoenix, Arizona Back then, nearly everyone had rotten teeth. Many cowboys had teeth stained by tobacco and coffee. That’s why...
Crown Jewel of the Big Horns
John Loucks fought the Sioux during their 1862 uprising in the Dakotas. Twenty years later, he platted out his vision for a town on a piece of...
Card Player No. 2
Sam Elliott has become one of the most iconic Westerns actor of the last half-century, with his wiry frame, bushy mustache and rumbling drawl. None...