John Mulvany was an artist in search of a masterpiece. He’d been preparing for it almost all of his life. Born in Ireland in 1844, he came to New...
The Art of Disaster
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Wyatt Earp Punts?
From handball to football, from polo to golf, and from the Tombstone Tigers to the Wyoming State Penitentiary All-Stars, true Westerners have always...
Carson City, Nevada
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...
Deadwood’s Lost Chinatown
A Chinese man enters a barn followed by Doc Cochran and Johnny Burns, a thug working for the infamous saloon owner, Al Swearengen. The Chinese man...
Custer, Cowboys and the Man in Black
Johnny Cash is playing on the ol’ stereo. Okay, so that’s not news—his music is practically always playing on the stereo. But this is appropriate...
Shattered Dreams and Broken Trails
The American West at the close of the 19th century was a land of contradiction. Progress-minded business men, pioneers intent on building a home,...
Winchester ’73 —Take Two
In the world of movie making, duplication of important props, such as the firearms of principle characters, is a common practice. This is done so...
Hired Out for a Tough Hand
Jane Burnett was not even seven years old as she sat on her pony “huddled over the saddle horn, icicles hanging from the end of my nose,” positioned...
The Weird Weird West
Under the category of weird but true, the Old West offered enough episodes to fill a sensation-mongering newspaper. Make that 100 newspapers. Some...
Mail-Order Brides
One emotion permeated the United States in the second half of the 19th century. It wasn’t greed for gold or lust for land—it was loneliness. The...
Crusaders of the Sagebrush
The promise of nostalgia and biographical information about our heroes, heroines, heavies and sidekicks of the B-Western film era never quite...
Guarding the Overland Trails
This view of the Civil War years on the Western plains has as its focus the 11th Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Col. William O. Collins. Casper,...