Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ADVENTURE Crazy Horse Volksmarch Custer, SD, June 6-7: Run the 10K to the world’s...
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Early Kicks Motoring West
The first decade of the 20th century was an incredible time of transition and exploration, and yet, surprisingly, few historians have attempted to...
On the Trail of the American Buckaroo
Jeremy Agnew has taken on a massive task in The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact, tracing not only the origins of the cowboy/hero...
An Alamo Legend for All Generations
The Alamo is arguably the most recognizable shrine in the state of Texas. Ron J. Jackson and Lee S. White’s Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo...
Old West CSI
It had all the makings of a nice little score. George Isaacs stuffed five sacks of mostly blank paper scraps and presented them at the Wells Fargo...
Esther Ross
A century ago, the 17-year-old daughter of an ambitious Prescott, Arizona, pharmacist had traveled over three days and 2,400 miles to New York to...
Buck Taylor: King of the Cowboys
The original ‘King of the Cowboys” was literally tall in the saddle. In an age when the average cowboy was five feet eight inches William Levi...
Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist
That was “Nellie Bly,” the “stunt reporting” woman who made her name in the late 1800s, mostly for traveling around the world in 72 days, beating...
The Legend of Sam and Major Dundee
Fifty years ago, director Sam Peckinpah’s controversial Major Dundee, starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris was floundering at the box office....
“One Riot, One Ranger”
Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald is famous for the line, “One riot, one Ranger.” But like so many notable quotes, it’s probably more folklore...
Hell Paso
Everyone knew that John Wesley Hardin was one of the deadliest gunfighters in all the West. Which is why, late in the evening of August 19, 1895,...
Hygiene in the Old West
Just how good were the “good ol days?” Folks on the western frontier led a hardscrabble life. They were wan with fever, gaunt, scrawny and peaked....