Over the last several decades, great strides have been made to correct some of the historical inaccuracies created by early scholars of the American...
The Return of Crazy Horse
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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...
Guthrie, Oklahoma
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...
Liquor, Cards and Guns
Saloons, with their gambling tables and faro layouts, lined the streets of Old West frontier towns. The predominantly male population had few...
SERIESous about the West?
If you ask an Average Joe who has any inkling about Western history to name a series in the genre, he’s most likely going to name the Time-Life Old...
All the World’s a Stage on the Overland Trail
Then the rattling of the coach, the clatter of our six horses’ hoofs, and the driver’s crisp commands, awoke to a louder and stronger emphasis; and...
The first book on the Old West that I owned was Lea McCarty’s The Gunfighters; how accurate is it?
The first book on the Old West that I owned was Lea McCarty’s The Gunfighters; how accurate is it? John Redshaw, Maniac #776 St.Paul, Alberta,...
The Cup-Spinning Scene: How Did They Do It?
The cup-spinning scene in 1993’s Tombstone is still a favorite among Western movie aficionados. When Johnny Ringo shows up at the gaming tables, a...
Doc Holliday’s Racist Killing?
Scratch the reputation of a legendary killer of the Old West, and you’ll find a layer of myth. Scratch that layer, and you’ll likely find another...
Dying Doc, Withered Wyatt?
By 1887, Doc Holliday was in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, taking in the healing waters, trying to nurse his lungs that had been ravaged by...