“The Severed Heads Campaign” (March 2015) was a most interesting story. Did some frontier bounty hunters also collect heads? Paul Gordon St. Thomas,...
What became of Hickok’s weapons? Rick Seward Ord, Nebraska James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was allegedly carrying a .32 caliber Smith and Wesson No....
The best book on Bent’s Fort is David Lavender’s Bent’s Fort, although Mark Lee Gardner wrote a great Historic Resource Study for the park about 10...
Scottsdale’s Museum of the West has been a long time coming. Our friend Abe Hays has been championing the idea of a Western museum in the Arizona...
Says the theme, “Once any girl has kissed him twice she’s dreaming of shoes and rice.” In the fourth and final season of Bronco, Ty Hardin’s Bronco...
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART FESTIVALS Buffalo Roundup and Arts Festival Custer State Park, SD, September...
Female performers who played in the rough-hewn mining camp theaters had an edge on their male counterparts simply because they were women. That...
From our perspective today it's hard to believe that Hollywood did not film the Wyatt Earp in Tombstone story until the 1930s! There had been movies...
Stephen W. Kearny played a big role in the conquest and settlement of the West. The career military officer captured New Mexico and established a...
Arizona was the last of the refuge of the drifting lawmen and desperadoes of the Old West. Its wild country, lack of roads, and proximity to the...
In 1924, legendary actress Lotta Crabtree died, leaving behind an estate of $1.2 million and no known heirs. During a 1926 deposition about one of...
Gunman John Wesley Hardin penned his autobiography, which came out in 1896, a year after he died. But there were problems--beyond Hardin’s bad...