On Saturday, March 23, 1884 the undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World John L. Sullivan, traveling by rail on a coast to coast...
John L. Sullivan Visits Tombstone
read more
Articles
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.”...
The Hairy One Hangs
Sonoran bandito, Augustine Chacon, alias Peluda (“The Hairy One”), robbed and killed in Arizona, and then hid out in the Sierra Madres until his...
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...