The 26 year old’s decision to walk across the West seemed pure folly to some: “What a picnic those fellows out in the plains will have with the seat...
Charles Lummis’s Coast to Coast Journey
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Will Carver Checks Out
He was supposed to be taking just a little trip to Sonora, Texas, on a cool April night in 1901. He planned to check out the bank, map the best...
Jimmy Palmiotti
The worst advice I’ve ever gotten was my first girlfriend said there’s no money in comic books and that pursuing my dream is a stupid thing to do....
John Wayne’s Silver Screen Shootin’ Irons
In True Grit, Wayne’s character Rooster Cogburn told defense attorney Mr. Goudy “a gun that’s unloaded and cocked ain’t good for nothin’,” yet...
A Song of Praise for a Forgotten Folklore Collector
This book is an offering of the Indians, and I am only the recorder. Or so Natalie Curtis claimed in her groundbreaking work, The Indian’s Book,...
Frank History
That our mailman didn’t hoard some of the crazy packages we got from Phil Frank always surprised us. Luckily, he was a man with morals, because each...
Did Old West houses have outhouses, and were public facilities available?
Did Old West houses have outhouses, and were public facilities available? Darwin Allen Beshirs Mulvane, Kansas Just about every private home had an...
What do you know about Pete Spence, a member of the “Cowboys” of Tombstone?
What do you know about Pete Spence, a member of the “Cowboys” of Tombstone? Bob Wood Hugo, Minnesota Pete Spence was born Elliot Larkin Ferguson in...
Most modern retailers of Old West period clothing seem to sell only “banded” collared shirts, yet old photographs show cowboys did wear shirts with collars. When did cowboys begin wearing these shirts?
Most modern retailers of Old West period clothing seem to sell only “banded” collared shirts, yet old photographs show cowboys did wear shirts with...
In the Frederic Remington illustration of The Sentinel, is the mission San Xavier del Bac? Behind the mission, aren’t those the Santa Catalina Mountains?
In the Frederic Remington illustration of The Sentinel, is the mission San Xavier del Bac? Behind the mission, aren’t those the Santa Catalina...
In the Clint Eastwood movie Hang ’em High, a “tumbleweed wagon” picks up prisoners to haul them off to jail. Did such wagons actually exist?
In the Clint Eastwood movie Hang ’em High, a “tumbleweed wagon” picks up prisoners to haul them off to jail. Did such wagons actually exist? Anthony...
Why were some shotguns called “Greeners” by cowboys in the Old West?
Why were some shotguns called “Greeners” by cowboys in the Old West? Jack A. Graves Turlock, California The term “Greener” comes from a family of...