Ever heard of Elias Whitcomb? The Old West is full of brave Indian fighters who settled our country, yet never made dime novels or campfire songs....
The Gentleman Vigilante
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Candy Moulton
What nobody knows is that my executive director’s retreat is the homestead cabin my Belgian grandmother first lived in when coming to...
Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle? Paul Hughes Vacaville, California Historians still struggle to corroborate or...
March 2013 Events
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. Animal Adoptions WILD HORSE AND BURRO ADOPTIONSKnoxville, TN, March 15-16: Wild...
Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns?
Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns? Dr. Byron LloydSnellville, Georgia Jim Roberts, top gun in Arizona’s storied...
Canyon, Texas
Chances are good you’ve seen Palo Duro Canyon, even if you have never been there. Georgia O’Keeffe regularly visited the canyon when she was the...
Billie Bierer’s Buffalo soldier Reads
In her novel The Audacity of Patience Levi, Billie Bierer based her lead character on the female Buffalo Soldier Cathy Williams. Shared here are...
Dragoons in Apacheland
William S. Kiser ably fills a historical void by covering the role of the U.S. dragoons in New Mexico, particularly the challenges they faced with...
Gunfighter in Gotham
Many deem Robert K. DeArment’s 1979 biography, Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend, as essential reading. DeArment’s Gunfighter in Gotham attempts...
Texas Dames
In Texas, everything is bigger—even the accomplishments of the Lone Star State’s women. The collection of biographies contained in Carmen...
Something Big
Imagine charming outlaw Dean Martin kidnapping gorgeous Honor Blackman in a battle of the sexes that includes low comedy, fights (gun, fist and...
Honoring Elmore
The success of FX’s Justified, created by Graham Yost from Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire in the Hole,” is by now as familiar as Raylan Given’s...