The Navajo Trail is more of a song than an actual Old West Trail. Recorded in 1945, “Along the Navajo Trail” is a classic Country song written by...
Ghost Dance Tragedy
Coming at the conclusion of what white Americans call the frontier period in their history, Wounded Knee climaxed an era of intermittent warfare....
Pat Garrett’s Ghostwriter
Marshall Ashmun Upson—“Ash”—was an itinerant journalist (and heavy drinker) in the years after the Civil War. By 1877, he was a small rancher and...
The Great Menken
Provocative encores could be lucrative in those rich mining towns of the West. Adah Issacs Menken, a free-spirited performer, appeared in La Mezappa...
Treasures of the Black Range
A new, beautiful book about the search for lost Spanish gold—and all the danger, intrigue, adrenaline and obsession that lies therein—has just been...
Townful of Santas
Minden bills itself as “Nebraska’s Christmas City,” stringing 15,000 lights throughout its town square to seal the deal. But to know why this town...
Life in Tombstone
While looking through the dog-eared copy of one of my favorite authors and mentor, Dr. Leland Sonnichson’s Billy King’s Tombstone, I see that,...
Supreme Cowgirl
This Arizona cowgirl grew up on the Lazy B, a cattle ranch near Duncan. Her father, Harry Day, expected her to pull her own weight and learn the...
Thank You, Sarah Jane Woodson
Every woman who ever graduated from college can look back and say a special “thank you” to Sarah Jane Woodson—one of the first women and one of the...
Croquet in the West
You’ve probably heard about the photo which allegedly shows Billy the Kid and friends playing croquet in New Mexico Territory in 1878. The photo may...
The Cisco Kid
Many people are familiar with writer William Sidney Porter who, using the pen name O. Henry, wrote stories with a twist of the tale including, Gift...
Western Events for November 2015
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Sharing the Past Through Art Fort Worth, TX, November 12: A tour through...