Who is Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell? She defends Tom Horn’s actions in a 1904 letter to the governor of Wyoming. John J. Tiffany II Lyme, Connecticut...
What did cowboys do for a living when they were too old for cowboyin’? Mike Franklin Poteet, Texas In the early days, an older puncher might get a...
In his writings, John W. Gilchriese cited entries from a diary he owned that was allegedly kept by Virgil Earp. Does it exist? Charles F. Price...
What can you tell me about the Tombstone Tigers baseball team? Kit Hussey Arlington, Texas The photograph is circa 1887. Our archival label of the...
In Westerns, I’ve heard fighters say, “Pick off the chief with the headdress on, and the rest will go away.” Did this really happen in the West?...
Bear Valley Records When your mailing address hasn’t changed for 100 years, your throwing game involves dried-up meadow muffins and your childhood...
If the politicians have their way, two wonderful living history museums in the country could close very soon. As we go to press, I have received...
They’ve been dismissed as “just waitresses,” suggesting they weren’t at all important in the history of the Old West. But that ignores what the...
“Toward the end, Geronimo, with fewer than a hundred fighting men, retarded settlement of a land larger than Germany and France combined. “For...
Why Oklahoma has agreed to do the novel of this aging academic, I do not know,” Willard Wyman wrote the editors and marketing department of the...
Publisher Preserves AZ History ONGOING: Arcadia Publishing of Charleston, South Carolina, and the Arizona Historical Foundation (AHF) have joined...
This past June, I attended the Dalton Days Classic Gunfights event in Meade, Kansas, and met two re-enactors from Arkansas. They told me the head...