They were paid $20-$30 a month and were called names like Belly-cheater, Cooky, Coosie, Beef-trust, Dog face, Dutch, Beans, Punk, Grease-pot and...
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Survival in the Cold Old West
A combination of history and legend tells us that near midnight, on the eve of Christmas day 1866, a man appeared on horseback outside the...
“Fight of My Life”
“Wink” Crigler grew up as a true child of the Old West-a granddaughter of pioneer ranchers in northeastern Arizona, she learned to ride a horse and...
Gold Fever
In the Bradshaw Mountains outside of Phoenix, Arizona, I saddled up with my guide Milton Joseph and two other riders to search for gold with...
Good As Gold
Back in 1873, when Colt first introduced the Peacemaker, it sold for a whopping $17.50! That was nearly a month’s wages for a laborer. You could...
Following Mountain Man Jim Bridger
At the edge of the Red Desert, But situated in a lush valley within view of a mountain range that retains snow on its peaks much of the year, Fort...
Western Writers Pick Top 100 Westerns
Last year, a line was drawn in the sane when, as part of their annual summer convention, the Western Writers of America (WWA) decided that they...
Preservation: Indians on the Internet
Indians on the Internet The National Museum of the American Indian houses three Smithsonian museums, in Washington, DC and New York City, under one...
Shoot-Out at Cottonwood Springs?
March 24, 1882 Wyatt Earp and his men take breakfast north of Contention, Arizona, on the San Pedro, then ride south toward the Babocomari River to...
Buried Lies (Fiction)
This Western within a Western begins with vacationing Gus Ivy’s haircut in an Arizona barber shop. A reader of sagebrush yarns, he spots The Cavity...
Word Gets Around (Fiction)
In this contemporary Romance, Lauren Eldridge returns to Texas to help her father train a horse for an upcoming Hollywood movie. This is Lauren’s...
Steve Shaw
I reluctantly acquiesced to my wife Marcie’s idea that we take a steamboat cruise on the Mississippi River in 1998; I assumed it would...