I started collecting because I liked to read and wanted to keep every book and not have to return it to a library. My first book collection was...
Robert G. McCubbin
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True West’s Best Movies, TV Series & DVDs of 2013
The Lone Ranger: Masked Eye of the Storm Hollywood loves trumpeting its failures as much as its successes: 1963’s Cleopatra, 1980’s Heaven’s Gate...
Who are the men in the “mystery photo” that claims to feature some of the Old West’s most famous gunfighters at Hunter’s Hot Springs in Montana?
Who are the men in the “mystery photo” that claims to feature some of the Old West’s most famous gunfighters at Hunter’s Hot Springs in Montana?...
Lynch Mob Law
Mark C. Dillon, an associate justice of the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court, brings all of his legal knowledge to bear on the...
Rough Drafts 12/13
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...