All too often, writers dealing with the history of crime in the Old West neglect California once they are done covering Joaquin Murrieta and...
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The Year the Stars Fell
The Lakota Sioux kept track of their past through an annual pictorial “Winter Count.” For more than 11 centuries, tribal historians drew the single...
Silver City Shoot-Out
March 10, 1884 After an exercise break, prisoners Frank Taggart, Mitch Lee and Kit Joy overpower two guards at the jail in Silver City, New Mexico,...
Cowboy Mounted Shooting
The thunderous sound of pounding hooves and the staccato bursts of gunfire breaks the silence of the still air as the lone horseman smoothly guides...
Preservation: Song Of Praise
The Central City Opera in Denver and historic preservation go together. The organization formed back in the early 1930s to help save and renovate...
Civil War in the West
The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh. Okay, so that was John Wayne’s William T....
The Rookie Rancher
Doc Holliday. Sam Bass. “Bear River” Tom Smith. And countless others. They found a haven in the West. A chance to change their lives. The...
A Tragic End to a Classic Cowgirl
You have to wonder if it was the sexy cowboy or the opportunity to break out of the “woman’s world” that most prompted young Eloise Fox to run away...
Silver City Shoot-Out
March 10, 1884 After an exercise break, prisoners Frank Taggart, Mitch Lee and Kit Joy overpower two guards at the jail in Silver City, New Mexico,...
Cowboy Mounted Shooting
The thunderous sound of pounding hooves and the staccato bursts of gunfire breaks the silence of the still air as the lone horseman smoothly guides...
Preservation: Song Of Praise
The Central City Opera in Denver and historic preservation go together. The organization formed back in the early 1930s to help save and renovate...
Civil War in the West
The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh. Okay, so that was John Wayne’s William T....