Twice Wild Bill Hickok asked to change seats with Charlie Rich at the poker table. Twice he refused. Although, with his back to the door and...
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Outlaw Joel Fowler
On a cold January night in 1884, Joel A. Fowler sat helpless in jail. The citizens of Socorro, New Mexico, gathered outside, eager to lynch the...
A Million Ways to Laugh in the West
When a trailer is posted on the Internet, keeping track of the views and “shares” is the perfect way for studios to judge which films will hit...or...
Crusade for Justice on Minnesota Frontier
In August 1862, President Abraham Lincoln’s Army of the Potomac was being fought to a standstill by Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia...
Rough Drafts 7/14
During the recent Arizona History Convention in Prescott, Arizona, a group of us were treated to keynote speaker Paul Andrew Hutton (who is on...
Carson’s Cannons Win the Day
The First Battle of Adobe Walls, in 1864, was a sort of full-dress rehearsal for the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. At the former, Col. Kit...
Frontier Photographers Reveal Our Past
From Daguerreotype views, through collodion, wet and dry, stereographs, to the film that I still use and cherish, Rachel McLean Sailor in Meaningful...
La Gente Nuevo of Spanish North America
Danna A. Levin Rojo’s Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México challenge the traditional interpretations of the...
Debut Western Rides Hard Across Arizona Territory
Jeff Guinn’s Glorious: A Novel of the American West is the old story of plucky pioneers defending themselves against a ruthless rancher; but then so...
July 2014 Events
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ADVENTURE Kit Carson Wagon Train Monte Vista, CO, July 30-Aug. 2: Named after the...
Bad Hand Mackenzie
Born into a prominent New York family on July 27, 1840, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie was destined to live his life seated in a McClellan saddle on the...
The Northern Plains to the Pacific Northwest
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington mark their quasquicentennials—125 years since achieving statehood—this year and it is a good time...