In the Nov/Dec. 2011 issue, I told readers a possible reason why Geronimo was holding two sticks was so he could steady the gun while firing. Reader...
Who was the man Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed in Abilene, Kansas? John “Arizona” Crawley Salem, Oregon Mike Williams was a former bartender from...
Why did some vaquero saddles have dinner plate-type saddle horns? Glade Fawson Riverton, Utah My famous saddlemaker friend, Carson Thomas, of...
How successful were traveling entertainers in the Old West? Jack A, Graves Turlock, California They were popular in the entertainment-starved West,...
The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century...
Did Arizona ever list train robbery as a capital offense? Norman Lilley Forepaugh, Arizona Yep. The railroads wielded enough political pressure to...
The famous Mother Road pathway lingers in our memories, and Russell A. Olsen highlights its charms in Route 66: Lost & Found (Voyageur Press,...
By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the...
The Western was fair game in 1970, when the movie Little Big Man was released. Those were cynical times, and people were polarized—politically,...
I loved working with the “Young Guns,” but it was the Old Guns, like Jack Palance, James Coburn and Brian Keith, who made it a true Western...
1. Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park provides the finest example of living history on the Northern Plains. Besides the reconstructed Custer House...