When Adolph Coors decided to start his brewery, he partnered with a fellow German named Jacob Schueler in 1873. Coors ran the brewery while...
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Articles
What History Has Taught Me: Patrick Dearen
Author, Historian, Journalist Inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame with the class of 2022, Patrick Dearen of Midland, Texas, is the author...
Whole Lotta Love
Giving our mothers and grandmothers their due is more than satisfying. Back in 1994 I had it on my schedule to do one of my timeline books on “The...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings “The way to avoid housework is to live outside.” Quotes “I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.” —Terence, Former...
The Best Smirk in the West
You only have to look at the smirk on Sharlot Hall’s face to know she just bested nasty men who thought women didn’t belong in photos like this—the...
What History Has Taught Me: Logan Maxwell Hagege
Western Artist Logan Maxwell Hagege (b. 1980) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist with modern visions of the West. Hagege’s mature...
Pocket Guns, Ned Kelly and The Kid
I’ve read the transcript of Wyatt Earp’s testimony at the inquest following the gunfight at (near) the O.K. Corral, and it seems he drew his...
Western Roundup October 2022
Dalton Defender Days & Cowboy Trade Days Coffeyville, KS, October 1-2: Celebrate that fateful day of October 5, 1892, when the Dalton...
Keeping the West Alive!
Western art museums paint a picture of optimism and excitement during a time of changes. “This is an ongoing question for Western art...
Rawlins, Wyoming
The Old West is alive in the county seat and its neighboring towns of Carbon County. Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch were well known around...
Barry Corbin
The veteran actor has defined the art of bringing bad news to good Westerns. There are a certain very few actors whose presence lends the...
El Bandito Simpático
James B. Mills’ major new biography of Billy the Kid, plus a geographic history of Nebraska, an alternate bio of The Kid, a Wild West Western, and...