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...
Delivering Justice
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Articles
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...
Dibs on Doc
You could find just about everything good and bad about the buying and selling of Old West artifacts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this past July...
Son of a Gunfighter
October 14, 1882 John J. Cozad is negotiating a trade in the Bee Hive General Store, which is run by his mother-in-law, Julia A. Gatewood, who sits...
From Silver Screen to Gun Room
Have you ever wanted to own a gun used in a Western film by one of your favorite cowboy stars…or even one packed by one of the supporting actors in...
The Lovable Liar
Did you ever look inside your Stetson and wonder who painted the poignant rendering of a cowboy watering his horse from his hat? In my humble...
Mountain Charlie
For Charles Stewart Stobie, the decision to travel from Eastern cities to the Indian lands in the rugged American West would last a lifetime....
History Mystery Solved? Hiding in Plain Sight
One of the most intriguing mysteries of the Old West concerns the disappearance of the Kansas murder family known as the Benders. From October 1870...
Robert Taylor Westerns
When introduced to the world as Greta Garbo’s young lover in Camille, Robert Taylor was promoted as the “Male Garbo.” Movie after movie focused on...
Favorite Docs on Film
In November 8, 1887, gambler and gunfighter John Henry “Doc” Holliday finally played his last hand, succumbing to the tuberculosis that dogged him...