What’s the difference between an Old West marshal and a sheriff? Scott Gano Lake Orion, Michigan Generally speaking, U.S. marshals and their...
What’s the difference between an Old West marshal and a sheriff?
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Where is Wyatt Earp’s second “wife,” Mattie Blaylock, buried?
Where is Wyatt Earp’s second “wife,” Mattie Blaylock, buried? John Crawley Salem, Oregon Mattie’s body lies in the historic Pinal City Cemetery near...
Did cowboys in the Old West really wear that much clothes, even on sunny days?
Did cowboys in the Old West really wear that much clothes, even on sunny days? Gerald Saunders Baie Verte, Newfoundland, Canada You have to...
In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people?
In 1969’s Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, are the characters Joe LeFors and Lord Baltimore based on real people? Stace Webb Wenatchee,...
Song Catcher
The Dakota and Chippewa songs could have been lost forever if not for a pioneer Minnesota woman who decided these American sounds must not be...
Loping Along the Guest Ranch Trail, Dude
The 4x4 pickup slides in the mud as Patricia Chesser and I head toward the branding corrals on the Burnt Well Guest Ranch outside of Roswell, New...
Preservation: Pony Express Rides On
Pony Express Rides On Back on April 3, 1860, a rider headed out of St. Joseph, Missouri, carrying saddlebags of mail to Sacramento, California. The...
Taos Founders Top Auction
For Eanger I. Couse, life seemed to begin in 1887. He found romance and learned of a place from which his future work would gain its most notoriety....
One Hell-Firin’ Minute of Smokin’ Action
August 22, 1891 Deputy Ed Short has learned that the ill man lodging at the Rock Island Railroad hotel in Hennessey, Oklahoma, is none other than...
Month of Atonement
This must be the month of atonement because culpability for ancient and unaddressed sins is the overriding theme of the summer, on TV and in the...
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...
Mining vs. Ranching
They call it “the richest hell on earth.” Excuse me ... hill, not hell. I’m on that scenic and historic stretch of Interstate 90 in Montana’s “Gold...