When did regular bathing become the norm in the Old West? Mike Franklin Poteet, Texas Good hygiene is a fairly recent concern. The mid-20th century...
When did regular bathing become the norm in the Old West?
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Did Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders include any outlaws or lawmen?
Did Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders include any outlaws or lawmen? Jari Teilas Kotka, Finland The legendary captain of Company A, William O. “Buckey”...
Got Gold … In Your Closet?
Many people have items at home, often tucked away or somehow otherwise forgotten, that could be worth more than gold. Anyone who has watched...
Following Calamity Jane
Born in Missouri in 1856 Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana gold fields near Virginia City and...
The “New” Old Ancestors
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 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...