For almost 80 years, archaeologists were pretty sure how and when the first humans came to the New World. A 1932 excavation of a prehistoric village...
The “New” Old Ancestors
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The Original Boot Hill
In the streets of a Kansas prairie town on an evening in mid-1872, a familiar pattern unfolded-a crowd gathered, somebody fired a gun and somebody...
How to Own a Dixon on a Low Budget
Given that Maynard Dixon commands as high a price at auction as $1.5 million, some of you might think a drawing by him would also be out of your...
Auld Lang Syne
“January 4, 1883. I take my pen in hand with much pleasure tonight to scratch you a few words,” began Ella Oblinger’s letter to her grandparents and...
An Insane Treatment
A 1967 ABC episode of The Big Valley illustrated the institutional horrors faced by mentally ill persons and those “undesirables of troublemakers”...
Choose the Right Felt Hat
You can often tell a lot about a person by his or her choice of headwear, and few hats make louder statements than cowboy hats. You might wear a hat...
Remembering a Western Literary Icon
Elmer Kelton leaves behind some big boots to fill. Well, he would have, had he worn boots. “I’ve got two glass ankles and flat feet,” he told me...
The Apaches Spoke, and Eve Ball Listened
Along Highway 380, in Lincoln County, New Mexico, stands a new historic marker, honoring Eve Ball for “saving oral histories certain to be lost...
Happy 400th Birthday, Santa Fe
Santa Fe, the city that kept Billy the Kid in chains in the city jail and chained Gov. Lew Wallace to his desk so he could finish Ben-Hur, turns 400...
Horsey Adventures in Fort Worth
Billed as the oldest stock show in America, the Fort Worth Stock Show dates to 1896, when it was first held as a one-day event on the banks of...
Cactus Camp
The design for Cactus Camp figuratively took shape on a bar napkin at the Roadrunner Bar in New River, Arizona. Kit Carson (no relation to the...
Lynda A. Sanchez
The Lincoln County War comes alive at Fort Stanton through the ghosts that roam the nearby hills and the buildings on the parade ground. The...