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Rowdy Cowboys, Outlaws, and Blood Feud
L.R. Millican’s life in Lampasas, Texas, was both lucky and legendary. Lampasas, for a time, was on the edge of a lively frontier in Texas, and much...
Two Rode Together
Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends. The Goodnight-Loving Trail has...
Abilene, Kansas
The once lawless cattle town is now one of the West’s most historic Old West destinations. The railhead town of Abilene, Kansas, had a wild...
Crazy Horse, Preachers and Horse Thieves
Was Crazy Horse part White? Ronnie Bishop Tulsa, Oklahoma Crazy Horse was born to parents from two different bands of the Lakota division of the...
What History Has Taught Me with Robert Vaughan
Robert Vaughan, Author Robert Vaughan sold his first book when he was 19. That was 57 years and nearly 500 books ago. He also wrote, produced and...
The Lawful and the Lawless
Firearms at the Rock Island Auction tell stories of violent days of frontier law and order. Rock Island Auctions presents firearms collectors with...
You Had to Look Hard – The Marquis de Morès Did
His wife’s beautiful name graces the charming town he left behind. "Little Misery” was about the only name you’d find in this part of the Dakota...
A Champion of the Small Ranchers
Nate Champion became a martyr in the Johnson County War. For some residents of Johnson County, Wyoming, in the 1890s, Nate Champion had the perfect...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Thanks for...
Kingman Kin
Here’s a classic film story that involves my hometown, Kingman, the Hotel Beale and my shirttail kin. As the story goes, Buster Keaton was...
Truth Be Known
“When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.” —Charles Goodnight “Every civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values...