If any single gun had an impact on the history of the West, it was the palm-sized Deringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used in 1865 to assassinate...
The Mouse that Roared
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The Old Snake Trade Route
Indian trade routes criss-crossed the country generations before any Euroamerican travelers arrived on foot, horseback or via covered wagons. The...
The Invisible Indian Tribe
Few people have ever heard of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe that is scattered around Las Cruces, New Mexico. In fact, the tribe isn’t even a...
Bent’s Fort’s 50th Anniversary
In 1833, the Bent brothers—Charles and William—along with partner Ceran St. Vrain were building a trading empire in the Southwest. The plan: to...
Fighting for Geronimo’s Remains
“It is my land, my home, my fathers’ land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those...
Frontier Wedding Menus
“One of the prettiest home weddings of the season was that of Miss Etta Scofield and Roy H. Tracey, Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of...
Feel Lucky, Clint?
During the medically captivating scene in 1970’s Two Mules for Sister Sara, Hogan (Clint Eastwood) lay in pain for about 70 minutes after being shot...
What to Wear This Summer
I wear a sombrero, silk neckerchief, fringed buckskin shirt, sealskin chaparajos or riding trousers [sic]; alligator hide boots; and with my pearl...
The Divorce Seekers
After gambling away my earnings from wrangling horses at the notorious Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming, I shipped my footlocker and saddle freight...
Glacier’s Great Artists
“Railway stations and hotels served in a real sense as the first “art galleries” in the West, at a time before traditional art institutions were...
Meet Robert J. Conley
I knew Robert J. Conley was not your typical Western writer when he came up to me and fellow author John D. Nesbitt at an Albuquerque bar and...
Wyatt Goes Rogue
March 21-22, 1882 Fresh from avenging the murder of Wyatt Earp’s brother Morgan by killing Frank Stilwell at the train station in Tucson, Arizona,...