Myra Maybelle Shirley, better known to the world as Belle Starr, made a name for herself in a world of shoot- ’em-up men. She had three outlaw...
The Bandit Queen’s Treasures
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Top 10 Western Museums of 2011
1. Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave (Golden, Colorado) He might be buried atop Lookout Mountain near Golden, Colorado, but William F. “Buffalo Bill”...
Billy the Kid Stays in the States!
The holy grail of Old West photos is now on “Billionaire’s Row” in Palm Beach, Florida, with oilman William Koch, who won his $2 million bid for a...
Llano, Texas
Families of foxes and armadillos sometimes dart across Patty Schneider Pfister’s backyard. Llano, Texas—population 3,232—is not quite the frontier...
Jody Dahl
Rancho-nomics means if you’re going to make it in the ranching and dude ranching industry, get a leather punch and just keep punching holes in it....
1956’s The Last Hunt
We are informed at the beginning of The Last Hunt that all of the depictions of buffalo hunting in the film were photographed at the annual...
Vera Cruz
Don’t bother getting the new Blu-ray of 1954’s Vera Cruz. Since it was the first movie to use SuperScope, an expanded 35mm process, that might...
The Comancheros
As a terrific documentary on this 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition of 1961’s The Comancheros tells us, John Wayne came out of the 1950s looking to...
Apaches in the Southwest’s Borderlands
Mark Santiago tackles the issue of the Spanish deportation of Apache prisoners of war during the late 18th and into the early 19th centuries in The...
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
Roger L. Di Silvestro gives an accurate, lively account of Teddy Roosevelt’s formative years in the Dakota Badlands—warts and all. The Badlands...
The Floor of Heaven
Edgar award-winning historian Howard Blum’s The Floor of Heaven reads like a novel and has the scent of a best seller and future screenplay. His...
Route 66 Missouri
Joe Sonderman has turned out a nice addition to the annals of Route 66 history. His book is a good overall history of the highway as it was...