I love bookstores. During college, I worked for Dutton’s Books in North Hollywood, California. For decades, Dave Dutton and his family had one of...

Durango, Colorado
Ferroequinophiles adore Durango. Yes, gold first lured Charles Baker and his prospectors into the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado in 1860,...

The Two-Reel Texas Rascal
What comes first to mind when you want to talk Western history? Probably Texas. Caroline Frick guessed that, even while she was working at the...
Courage Under Fire
He was born Tzoe of the Canyon Creek clan of the Cibecue Apaches, around 1860, in the piñon-juniper canyon lands below the Mogollon Rim not far from...

Home Brewed Gun Show
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...