Go on the road with five masterful storytellers. Find out what your favorite authors are reading this summer. Keep your eyes peeled for this...
A Poor Man’s Search for Charlie Russell
When I entered graduate school at Colorado A&M College in the fall of 1954, my roommate hung a Charles M. Russell print on his wall: 1911’s Call...
Bloody Siege at Milk Creek
On Tuesday, September 16, 1879, Fort Fred Steele’s telegrapher handed his post commander, Maj. Thomas Thornburgh, a letter. Thornburgh glanced at it...
Searching for The Searchers
In Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Robert DeNiro and his buddies steal some cash and use it to see The Searchers. To some, Scorsese’s tribute to an...
A Mandan Circle Unbroken
Cory Spotted Bear is making up for lost time. He learned about the rich heritage of his Mandan people as an adult, and now he’s bringing back a...
Lee Marvin: Point Blank
Dwayne Epstein’s biography of Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin: Point Blank, is a well-researched labor that he spent years completing. With the help of...
Death by Rolling Pin?
Who knew a kitchen gadget, wielded by an angry wife, could cure a drunken husband? Businessman Francis Murphy of Omaha, Nebraska, “received” the...
What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico?
What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico? Tink Burris Silver City, New Mexico I believe you’re referring to the holdup by...
Power on the Plains
When the first explorers of the early 19th century ventured west beyond the Mississippi River, they carried long, slender and somewhat delicate...
Mysterious Dave
Dave Mather was a man of mystery—not only in life, but also in death. “Mysterious Dave” straddled the line between outlaw and lawman, and left...
This is a Hold Up
The jaundiced characterization of a dandified, belt-wearing, young riverboat hand is vintage Mark Twain—and a puzzle. After all, men seldom wore...
Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73?
Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73? Steve Andrews Colorado Springs, Colorado I ran this by True West’s gun...