Amber And The Pursuit of Dust to Dust March 19, 2025 As you may know I carry a sketchbook with me everywhere I go and often sketch random...
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Truth Be Known
"No one is as wrong as the man who thinks he knows all the answers." “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” —Oscar Wilde “...
What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
Deb Goodrich Deb Goodrich, a native Virginian, lives in northwest Kansas where she serves as the Garvey Texas Foundation Historian in...
Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
What are your thoughts on Stuart Lake’s book Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, TX Much of Lake’s book comes from the...
Black Gold on the Western Frontier
Black Gold on the Western Frontier The land Spanish explorers called “Colorado” was an untamed wilderness in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet...
Trails of the Old West
DISCOVERING AMERICA’S HISTORIC FRONTIER TOWNS From Arizona’s sunbaked deserts to Wyoming’s untamed wilderness, America’s historic frontier...
Kris Kristofferson— A Texan at Oxford
The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns If he’d done nothing but write Me and Bobby McGee, and Sunday Morning...
Three for the Road
The Bird Cage, the Butterfield and the Bunch The Gilded Theater In Old West history there are few cities as infamous as Tombstone, Arizona,...
The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
Calamity Jane, Wild Bill and George Custer roamed the Black Hills On July 2, 1874, George Armstrong Custer led a surveying expedition...
The Bowie Knife
The Bowie knife is an iconic symbol of American toughness and independence. Yet, its true origins are often misunderstood. The knife became...
The Kindled Flame 1835
A LONG ROAD TO THE BATTLE AT THE ALAMO Mexico had its hands full with Texas—the northern portion of its state Coahuila y Tejas—in 1835. Many...
King of the Scatterguns
The single best and most economical arm for hunting and defense in the Wild West was the double-barreled shotgun. At the sign of...