How would you like to attend a gun show and see hundreds of fine Old West guns and accessories—without having to traipse up and down endless,...
Geronimo!
October 5, 1881 An outbreak from the Apache Reservation in San Carlos sends fear and shock waves throughout southeastern Arizona as warriors led by...
Tracks that Speak
Old West novelist and journalist Emerson Hough called the moccasin “one of the most interesting articles of all the Indian gear.” The story told by...
The Frontier Christmas Trail
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Well, actually they were roasting on a gas barbecue grill, but those warm chestnuts made good hand warmers in...
Rat Pack Troopers
In 1962, no one was cooler or hipper than Frank Sinatra. The “Chairman of the Board,” later known as “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” headed a merry-making clan of...
The Flawed Gentleman Bandit
Acquaintances knew the gentleman as Charles Bolton, a 50ish, affable owner of a mine outside San Francisco, California. He sported a cane, derby...
The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?
The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt? Bill Diamond Windham, Maine Glen Wyatt...
Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real?
Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real? Jack Humphrey Cameron, Texas The “Dutchman,” like most lost mines in the West, is a huge myth with a little bit of...
December 2013 Events
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. Art Shows The West Select Phoenix, AZ, Closes Dec. 31: A Western art sale and...
The Shirt of a Condemned Man
The hanging of Tom Horn on November 20, 1903, marked the end of the Old West, a place and an era ultimately strangled by railroads, telegraph wires,...
A Literary Life of Adventure
Despite his world fame and incredible life story, Jack London (1876-1916) has never had an authoritative biography until now; Dr. Earle Labor is the...
“Free as the Winds,” Red Cloud Soared Above the Rest
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend is a biography long overdue. “Red...