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Hard and Noble Lives
Talk about six degrees of separation. Although, in a tight cattle community in Wyoming’s Hoback Basin of Sublette County, it only makes sense. The...
Tough Towns
With a direct and amusing style sure to please today’s readers, author Smith regales us with well-researched episodes of Western justice delivered...
One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
February 15, 1900 Today is supposed to be Wells Fargo Express Agent Jeff Milton’s day off. But someone telegraphed in sick, so he is working the run...
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
February 15, 1900 Today is supposed to be Wells Fargo Express Agent Jeff Milton’s day off. But someone telegraphed in sick, so he is working the run...
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
Birth of a State
November 16 dawned warm and sunny in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, in 1907. Citizens of the Twin Territories had been traveling for days to get to...
Preservation: Roll Along, Wagon Train
Roll Along, Wagon Train “Gotta keep ’em on the run. Time to go! And follow the sun. Roll along, Wagon Train.” Ward Bond played the wagonmaster on...
Ugly Ducklings of Frontier Six-shooters
The few surviving factory records reveal that Merwin, Hulbert & Co. was organized in 1874, when New England inventive genius and savvy...
No Compromise with War
When it comes to women in politics, Western women have always led the way. They did so back in 1916, even before all women had the vote, and in the...
Birth of a State
November 16 dawned warm and sunny in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, in 1907. Citizens of the Twin Territories had been traveling for days to get to...