Raised in Manhattan, Spur Award-winner John Lubetkin’s first experience of Custer Country was in the early 1950s as a summer camper on a month-long...
On The Trail Of Custer
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Articles
“What if everything we know about Billy the Kid is wrong?”
One hundred thirty-four years have passed since Billy the Kid’s daring escape from the Lincoln County jail in New Mexico Territory. Sixty-three...
Raphael “Red” Lopez
Raphael “Red” Lopez killed six men—including five law officers—during a late 1913 rampage outside Salt Lake City. Posses thought they had him...
That Would be Mrs. Jerome, Thank You
Jerome, Arizona has a wild and wonderful history as a booming mining town in the early 1900s turned ghost town turned modern-day artist community....
Rough Drafts 5/15
Over the decades, numerous pundits and pessimists have announced the end of the West, Western films, Western novels, Western music and Western...
Broncho Billy Anderson
Max Aronson couldn’t ride a horse before he became the first real Westerns star. He got a start in “The Great Train Robbery,” and by 1904, he’d...
Tap into History at Helldorado’s “El Gato de Cristal”
If Tombstone is the “Town to Tough to Die” than the Crystal Palace Saloon should also be also known as “El Gato De Cristal.” Like a cat with nine...
Frank Canton
There are many stories of good-bad men in the Old West and one of the more interesting is Frank Canton. He was born, Joe Horner. Horner drifted in...
Surviving Captivity
In 1864, as the Civil War ground toward its bloody finish, the West was aflame in widespread Indian conflicts of unimaginable violence and...
Albert Afraid of Hawk
Albert Afraid of Hawk was a 20-year-old Sioux who was part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show when he died in Danbury, CT in 1900. He was buried in...
Apache Endurance
Captured by Sonoran mercenaries near Esqueda, Sonora, Mexico (south of present-day Douglas, Arizona), in the mid-1860s, Dilcthe was sold into...
The End of the Civil War and Custer’s New Frontier
With the end of the Civil War sesquicentennial this April, publishers have kept bookstore shelves heavy with dozens of new volumes on the conflict,...