Wild Bill’s 1870 drunken brawl with Custer’s troopers is as legendary as the man of many names he killed. On July 17, 1870, Wild Bill Hickok...
Hickok’s Twist of Fate
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A Hero’s Journey from War to Peace
The federal government’s betrayal of Army Scout Chato is still a stain on American history. In 1934 Chato, well into his 80s, a shiny silver medal...
Crazy Horse’s Final Vision
The prophetic Lakota leader’s final days still haunt us today. There were too many tongues. Crazy Horse sought quiet on solitary walks on the...
Big Irons on the Block
Rock Island and Morphy firearms auctions ring up big profits. Marty Robbins famously sang about a stranger who came out of the West wearing a "big...
If it Moves, If it Spins, You’ll Find it Here
This truly was the “engine” for Albuquerque. The first thing Rabbi Isador Freed did in 1920, as he de-parted the train in a dusty New Mexico town,...
America’s Sherlock Holmes
William J. Burns proved a worth competitor to the Pinkertons...for a time. For a few years in the early 20th century, the William J. Burns...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. 1883 and...
Crazy Hunt
Our team’s quest to capture Crazy Horse’s visage was a bear. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse. Yes, there are several...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings "Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still." Quotes "It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose...
Working on the Railroad
Were they employees of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad? The six men in the photo, including the four on the handcart and two with steel bars on the...
Western Roundup: June 2022
Gold Rush Days Sidney, NE, June 10-12: Experience the Black Hills gold rush of 1876 through skits, re-enactments and cowboy lore about the town’s...
What History Has Taught Me: Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Author, Graphic Novelist Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the award-winning author of dozens of books, including the historical Western epic Blood and Gold:...