July 15, 1892 The Dalton Gang vs Katy Railroad Guards The Last Successful Raid of the Daltons Turns Tragic Riding eight strong, the Dalton...
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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...
Eye for Eye
L.J. Martin makes a movie. Western author L. J. Martin, with more than 40 novels to his credit, is not one to wait for things to happen: he...
Casper, Wyoming
The historic trail town celebrates its Western heritage all year round. The College National Finals Rodeo in 2021 was not Casper’s first...
Cattle Queens, Dragoons and Rangers
How were Old West hotel rooms heated? Carolyn Childs (Houston, Texas) Fires were a menace to those wood structures; they could wipe out an entire...
Western Roundup: May 2022
Wyatt Earp Days (Pictured) Tombstone, AZ, May 27-28: In honor of famed Tombstone lawman Wyatt Earp, activities include gunfights, a chili cook-off...
The Beehive State
Utah has been a leader in apiary science for crop pollination and honey production for over 150 years. Honey is nature’s sugar, and...
What History Has Taught Me: James B. Mills
Historian James B. Mills was born in 1983 and raised in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. He first became fascinated with the...
Gold Mines, Photos and Fakes
Navigating the pitfalls of collecting historic photographs is not for the faint of heart. The sale at auction of a tintype of Billy the Kid...
A Grave Concern
About that pipe that marks the last resting place of the Daltons… Visitors to the Elmwood Cemetery in Coffeyville, Kansas, are generally looking for...