In a photo of six cowboys, two of them smoke pipes with the bowls turned upside down. Why? Irv Ferguson Coolidge, Arizona Cowboys smoking with the...
Why do some sheriff’s and marshal’s badges have five points or six points? Pam Stockton Mountain Home, Arkansas Peace officers, then and now, can...
• His teeth appear to confirm what a contemporary said about the Kid:?“He could eat pumpkins through a picket fence.” • The photo assistant’s hand...
Blazing Saddles, the 40th Anniversary edition, marks more than the return of Mel Brooks’s incredibly successful Western farce—it reflects the...
All across the Pacific Northwest are reminders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06, although no tangible physical evidence remains. There...
Late last year, our publisher emeritus, Robert G. McCubbin, received a phone call from a gentleman, whose family had formerly lived in Silver City,...
In the “Wyatt Earp: The Tombstone Vendetta” episode of Gunslingers, a weathered Kurt Russell states, “The O.K. Corral is the greatest gunslinger...
Nearly two dozen Texas gunmen rode a specially outfitted railroad car into Casper, Wyoming, on April 5, 1892. They disembarked well before sunrise,...
Born in 1828 to the Southern Cheyenne tribe, Tak-kee-o-mah, or Little Robe, was raised a warrior, his skills honed in combat with traditional...
July 14, 1881 At about nine p.m. Sheriff Pat Garrett and two deputies, John Poe and Tom “Kip” McKinney, ensconce themselves within a peach orchard...
I collect art because it surprises me. The same painting can look different every day. It’s always changing. I’ve lived a lot of places, but,...
It’s not the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., nor Judge Isaac Parker’s courthouse in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It’s not even here anymore, but...