They provided cheap labor, and they were blamed for white unemployment. Rampant racial sentiment in the U.S. would result in an 1882 exclusion act,...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2016
Don’t lie awake worrying that our history has been forgotten. After compiling this list of great Western towns, we know it’s in good hands. Across...
Frank Canton’s Assassination Squad
In the late 1880s, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association put together an assassination squad, led by the infamous lawman Frank Canton (photo). The...
Doc Holliday: Deadly Killer?
A recent television series referred to Doc Holliday as a “vicious killer” but Doc’s reputation as the “deadly dentist” is greatly exaggerated. One...
“You Got Me!”
In Westerns when a bad guy is shot, he invariably dies a clean death, i.e. quickly and neatly. But in real life mortally wounded outlaws could...
“I am A Friend to any Brave and Gallant Outlaw”
Belle Starr said that, the “bandit queen” who liked her men, her moonshine and her stolen horses. There's a part of her legend that speaks of...
Western Events for February 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ADVENTURE Eagle Tour & Loon Watch Vian, OK , February 6: This tour of Sequoyah...
John D. McDermott
Being born on the same day as George Custer, I have known about him practically all my life. My great-grandfather McDermott, who was born in 1870,...
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 really lit the fuse of the Civil War. The measure allowed citizens in those territories to decide whether or not to...
What route did the cattle drives take to get to Sedalia, Missouri?
What route did the cattle drives take to get to Sedalia, Missouri? Robert Tignor Independence, Missouri The cattle drives to Sedalia, Missouri, were...
Buried Alive
The mining community of Alta, Utah, has the dubious distinction of being among the top in the world for suffering catastrophic avalanches. The town...
George Ruffner’s Winning Hand
George Ruffner arrived in Prescott in 1882 and in the years that followed was a cowboy, freighter, rancher and in 1894 he was elected Sheriff of...