In some Westerns, characters hang a dead man’s gun and holster on a crudely made cross marking his grave. Did they really do that in the old days?...
While traveling through southern New Mexico and Arizona, I saw signs for “The Thing.” What is it? John Chambers San Jose, California “The Thing” is...
What can you tell me about the Western writer William W. Johnstone? Jack A. Graves Turlock, California William W. Johnstone was one of America’s...
Martin (Kevin Market), a mute blacksmith living in a small Arizona town, is framed for the murder of a retiring banker and his wife, who were his...
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...