Frederic Remington did not live to see his Cutting Out Pony Herds (A Stampede) receive public notice. Collier’s Weekly published the oil on its...
Paydirt-It’s Still Out There!
Outlaw Treasure - The Dalton Gang Loot The famous Dalton Gang made history in 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at the same time in...
Modern-Day Treasure Hunt
The way Forrest Fenn puts it, the treasure chest includes: 265 gold coins; nuggets; a Spanish 17th-century gold ring with a large emerald;...
Sadie vs. Josie
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp fancied herself an actress. In later life, she told folks about her adventures in a drama troupe that traveled the wilds...
Wild Women of the West
The great female shortage, that was one of the dominating, formative and frustrating facts of the early West. In 1849, for example, only...
Soiled Doves
Bring up the intriguing subject of prostitution history in the American West, and you are sure to liven up a conversation. The thought of someone...
3:10 TO YUMA-Delmer Daves
In 1956, Delmer Daves set to work with Halsted Welles (The Hanging Tree) to adapt the late Elmore Leonard’s short story “Three-Ten to Yuma” for the...
Digging for Treasure
Bob Murawski loves movies, and not in that bogus “Citizen Kane resonates on so many levels” kind of way. His is a dedication to underdog flicks,...
Delivering Justice
During the rough and woolly days of the 19th century lived a legendary generation of U.S. marshals whose real life exploits sound like a dramatic...
On the Trail of Ancient Artists
The tourists from Canada said they could not “read” the petroglyphs carved onto the rock walls at Valley of Fire in Nevada. “They don’t appear to be...
A Dinner to Remember
The “most memorable dinner party in the Old West” just may be Julius Rosch’s stag dinner in Deming, New Mexico, in 1913. To show off the home he had...
The Vanity Plates of Footwear
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture and an 80-word description were still inadequate for style number 3542, one of Justin Boot Co.’s...