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? Henri Bronsgeest Fallon,...

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? 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? 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? Scott Duvall Appleton, Minnesota Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on...

This B-Westerns set features nine movies with all transfers uniformly excellent. In Lambert Hillyer’s Trigger Fingers, Johnny Mack Brown hunts down...

During the June 1874 battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle, where an estimated 700 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors attacked nearly 30...

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...

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...

Jefferson Glass’s Reshaw—The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard (High Plains Press, $19.95) offers a fascinating look at the “middle years” of...