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Help Us Save Old Cowtown and Old Trail Town!
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...
Harvey Girls
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...
Terpning Breaks Million-dollar Mark
“Toward the end, Geronimo, with fewer than a hundred fighting men, retarded settlement of a land larger than Germany and France combined. “For...
The “Dirt” on Spur Winners
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...
Preservation: Publisher Preserves AZ History
Publisher Preserves AZ History ONGOING: Arcadia Publishing of Charleston, South Carolina, and the Arizona Historical Foundation (AHF) have joined...
Long Hair in the Old West
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...
Ranch Romances
It started in 1924. He was the strong, silent type, with more than a hint of danger in the way he carried himself. His cowboy hat dipped at a rakish...
The Return of Crazy Horse
Over the last several decades, great strides have been made to correct some of the historical inaccuracies created by early scholars of the American...
Fort Courage Isn’t Here
Bob Bluthardt is used to the question, “Where is the wall?” After all, visitors have seen those pine palisade walls in B-Westerns, and plenty of...
Romeo Romances Left to Pasture
The indiscriminate reading of novels and romances is to young females of the most dangerous tendency ... it agitates their fancy to delirium of...
Getting Down to Brass Tacks
One of the earliest forms of firearms decoration was the use of metal tacks to embellish the gun stock. Such simple ornamentation can be found on...