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Pat Garrett’s Assassin

by Mark Boardman | Jan 1, 2016

Western author Emerson Hough (photo) was a friend of Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid. And when Garrett was assassinated in 1908,...

Lawyers of Tombstone’s “Rotten Row”

by | Jan 1, 2016

Rotten Row was the name Tombstonians affectionately called a row of buildings on 4th Street between Toughnut and Allen Streets. Conveniently located...

O Homo

by Bob Boze Bell | Jan 1, 2016

He showed up in Tombstone in the summer of 1881, without a gun, without a name and without clothes. The bronzed visitor insisted on being called “O...

City of Angels, City of Vice

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 1, 2016

Los Angeles is my hometown. As a writer and historian for many years, I have come to believe that L.A. is “the West’s most Western city.” Yale...

Western Events for January 2016

by Darren Jensen | Dec 31, 2015

Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ADVENTURE Polar Bear Stomp Eagle Nest, NM, January 1: Kick off the new year with a...

Tom Ketchum and J.N. Powers

by Mark Boardman | Dec 31, 2015

It’s not clear why J.N. “Jap” Powers was murdered. Maybe he was a cattle thief. Or he was unpopular with his neighbors around Knickerbocker, TX. Or...

Best of the West 2016: Art & Collectibles

by Meghan Saar | Dec 30, 2015

"Now began the real work….Rawhide ‘riatas’ were taken down, and a man rode into the bunch swinging the loop round his head like clockwork. All at...

Mary Kidder Rak

by | Dec 30, 2015

Among the wide gamut of working women in the West were not only schoolteachers, nurses, restaurateurs, seamstresses, good time girls and even...

The Gunslinger Aims to Kill

by Bob Boze Bell | Dec 30, 2015

In the Old West, men who had a reputation for being dangerous with a gun were referred to as gunfighters, gunmen, badmen, shootists, pistoleers and...