If you’re looking for a place to jump in to Loren Estleman’s enormous output, his novel of Wyatt Earp’s vendetta, Bloody Season; or his tale of the...
An Open Wound
In American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 (University of Oklahoma Press, $24.89), Jerome A. Greene, former research historian for the National Park...
Territorial Greed: Sins and Sinners of the Santa Fe Ring Revealed
Corruption, fraud, intimidation, murder and assassination, all weapons of power and greed the politicians of the Santa Fe Ring used during their...
In the Tombstone Territory TV series, why are the characters given fake names when the show was based on real events?
In the Tombstone Territory TV series, why are the characters given fake names when the show was based on real events? Henri Bronsgeest Fallon,...
How did cowboys brush their teeth?
How did cowboys brush their teeth? Byron Lloyd Snellville, Georgia Tools to clean teeth have been around since prehistoric times. The forerunner to...
When did billiards become popular in the Old West?
When did billiards become popular in the Old West? Paul W. Hughes Vacaville, California Billiards as an indoor table game was first mentioned in a...
Did Old West-style gunfights take place after 1910?
Did Old West-style gunfights take place after 1910? Kerry Creech Lake City, Florida The West was still pretty wild, especially in remote areas like...
Was Tom Horn really guilty of the murder for which he was hanged?
Was Tom Horn really guilty of the murder for which he was hanged? Scott Duvall Appleton, Minnesota Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on...
The Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7
This B-Westerns set features nine movies with all transfers uniformly excellent. In Lambert Hillyer’s Trigger Fingers, Johnny Mack Brown hunts down...
The “Shoot Today, Kill Tomorrow” Gun
During the June 1874 battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle, where an estimated 700 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors attacked nearly 30...
Where Cody Lives
The railroads may have built North Platte, but it was the Old West’s most renowned showman who put the Nebraska town on the map. In 1882, town...
Saving Luke Short’s Hotel
Kathleen Holt would like to say that she skateboarded in front of the 1886 hotel, as she was growing up in Cimarron, Kansas, some 50 years ago, and...