Appaloosa wasn’t Robert B. Parker’s first Western; that honor goes to Gunman’s Rhapsody, his 2001 novel about Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. Yet Parker...
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Hundred in the Hand
The Sioux continually raided small Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming for wood and supplies. In the fall of 1866, they waylaid a wagon train, killing all...
Fancy Pants
In this 1880s Romance, Lady Sydney Hathwell, an English heiress, skedaddles from an arranged marriage with a cold-hearted man living in New York...
Denton, Texas
Founded in 1857 as a county seat, Denton grew slowly until the railroad reached town in the 1880s. A rail outlet brought a considerable increase in...
Gunsmoke: The First Season
Gunsmoke was the black-and-white version of a radio show that starred Bill Conrad as Dodge City Marshal Matt Dillon, circa 1873. Conrad was a fine...
My Dear Tom Mix
It’s not surprising that this curious Mexican film draws inspiration and some guidance from Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who...
Salt Siege Shoot-out
December 13, 1877 At the Texas Ranger com-pound in San Elizario, Texas, Ranger Sgt. C.E. Mortimer walks down to El Molino to check in on the Rangers...
Salt Siege Shoot-out
December 13, 1877 At the Texas Ranger com-pound in San Elizario, Texas, Ranger Sgt. C.E. Mortimer walks down to El Molino to check in on the Rangers...
Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
Back in the 1940s, visitors to the men’s room of a Phillips 66 gas station in Northfield, Minnesota, were greeted by an unusual sight—photos of the...
Preservation: James-Younger Gang Returns to Northfield
Back in the 1940s, visitors to the men’s room of a Phillips 66 gas station in Northfield, Minnesota, were greeted by an unusual sight—photos of the...
Be Like Remington
A delirious blood-covered cavalry soldier rises up. Firing his pistol, he makes a mad dash to run through the Lakota warriors. One warrior rushes...
Be Like Remington
A delirious blood-covered cavalry soldier rises up. Firing his pistol, he makes a mad dash to run through the Lakota warriors. One warrior rushes...