Frank Butler, Annie Oakley’s husband, has to be one of the most unjustly maligned figures in the American West. Films portray him as a philandering...
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The Yankee “Sixteen Shooter”
Virtually every lever-action rifle today silently pays tribute to the granddaddy of lever guns designed over 150 years ago. One of the major...
The Elusive Outlaw
I first read about Tap Duncan when I was eight years old. My parents gave me a book about Old West outlaws, lawmen and gunfighters (which I loved...
Back in the Badlands
He was a 24-year-old New Yorker who wanted to kill a buffalo. That’s how Theodore Roosevelt first came to the Medora area of Dakota Territory in...
The Arizona Rangers
The dawning of the 20th century brought little improvement to the notorious reputation Arizona had earned during the tumultuous years of outlawry...
E.M. Horton
“His throne was a saddle horse and his sceptre a six-shooter.... He was truly typical of the Old West, of uncompromising attitude with the lawless...
Fifty Years of The Virginian
On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its debut on NBC, and 50 years later, this seminal series was honored at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles,...
The Mean-Nice Man
Before his extraordinary career as director of more than 500 hours of television, including 62 episodes of Dallas and 70 of Walker, Texas Ranger,...
The 5-Man Army
When the stunning Italian horror film Suspiria was released in 1977, audiences and critics cheered the arrival of a new genre stylist in...
February 2013 Events
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOW TRAPPINGS OF TEXASAlpine, TX, Starts Feb. 22: Nation’s second-oldest...
Inventive to a Fault the inventor and the tycoon
One was the “man who stopped time.” The other was the man who drove the golden spike. Photographer Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-action...
Object: Matrimony
Billed as an “entertaining look at the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail-order in the wide-open days of the Old West,” Chris...