Why did Mountain Men prefer riding mules over horses? And how come the Indians never rode mules? Paul Gordon St Thomas, Ontario, Canada Mountain Men...
Film historians like to talk about the great lost movies, films that were mutilated or mishandled. They talk about changing scripts, reshot endings...
Who was Gene Autry? It’s a fair question. In his time, Gene Autry was many things to many people, but it’s fair to say that Autry was a man who, by...
Philip was a lawyer and U.S. attorney whose letters to his children comprise reminiscences of his interesting early years (1897-1903) as a cowboy in...
Susan Clardy discovered her great grandfather’s carefully preserved letters and diaries in a trunk in her parents’ attic. Frank Hammon was an...
We have long needed this detailed account of the heyday of the old Texas cattle hamlet. Tascosa grew from a handful of placitas founded by New...
At first glance, this book suggests you’re going to be subjected to another dose of lost gold mines, Indian raids, mysterious ghosts and local...
Trappers and Basque sheepherders arrived in today’s Winnemucca, Nevada, in the 1830s, but a Wild Bunch robbery put it on the Old West map. On...
July 17 1882 Apache leader Na-ti-o-tish positions his warriors along a narrow gorge eight miles north of the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona....
And they said it would never last. But here she is, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a...
While the six-gun may have reigned as king of the silver screen West, in the real Old West, it was a different story. True, the handy six-shooter...
Saving the Sheriff On February 28, 1908, famed lawman Pat Garrett was gunned down just off a road outside Las Cruces, New Mexico. The killer of...