The West was immense, and frontier law enforcement sparse. Wise individuals carried firearms and knew how to use them. Some men and women became...
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Ditch the Derby
One of the problems Bat Masterson has in terms of his Old West legend is he is typecast as a city slicker, always wearing a derby. But the real Bat...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Saying “If you sit around a campfire long enough, everyone becomes a storyteller.” Quotes “It may be that them whose pleasure...
Deadly Gunplay
Charles M. Russell’s 1908 Smoke of a .45 captures the violent chaos caused by short tempers and whiskey on the Western frontier. Courtesy Google Art...
Historic Hotels, Saloons and Ranches
The West's best hotels, saloons, restaurants and dude ranches are among the most tangible ties to America’s frontier past. Outlaws, lawmen,...
Death Alley: The Dalton Gang’s Deadly Demise
“The five men rode boldly and at a swinging trot, raising a cloud of dust which literally enveloped them as they passed down Eighth Street.” –An...
Slaughter in Seven Rivers
Billy Wilson and Tom Pickett escaped the noose for the senseless murders of four Hispanos in Lincoln County. "Where would we get help if it...
Daniel Boone’s Yellowstone Hunt
Fact or Fiction? Did America’s first frontier hero reach the Big Sky land of geysers, scalding springs and “putrefied” trees that John Colter saw...
Adair Before They Die
July 15, 1892 The Dalton Gang vs Katy Railroad Guards The Last Successful Raid of the Daltons Turns Tragic Riding eight strong, the Dalton...
The Earps’ Flight After the Fight
The lawmen’s route from Arizona to New Mexico and Colorado is a grand adventure. The Gunfight That Wasn’t at the O.K. Corral was over, Billy Clanton...
True West Comes Clean
A look at our mistakes throughout the years. We were snookered. Duped. Fooled. Em-barrassed. Sideswiped by a “discovery” that turns out to be fake....
The Thrill of the West
Discover the tourist West in American Dude Ranch, and read a frontier murder-mystery, a novel of Libbie Custer, a Santa Fe Trail adventure and a bio...