I’d like to learn more about outlaw One-Eye Billy Moore, who may be a distant relative of mine. Michael Moore Via the Internet One-Eye Billy Moore...
In the year of Thomas Jefferson’s famous purchase, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte had conquered Spain and ruled all Spanish territory in North America....
Some may say it’s his voice, textured like barn wood: soft, weathered and grainy. Or the way he wears his hat—to one side, casting a shadow over...
When I finally announced that I was going to become a doctor it broke the heart of all my friends and I was publicly disgraced. Women that I had...
When watching a movie, sometimes it’s easy to forget that those are real people behind the roles. They bring to their characters their own...
The hat style called the Tom Mix goes in and out of fashion, but it has been guaranteed to raise a smile for most of the last century. The Tom Mix...
Disgusted, Wild Bill Hickok tossed down his cards on that fateful August 2, 1876. Hickok had joined the table at Nuttall and Mann’s No. 10 Saloon in...
In John Wayne’s last film, The Shootist, he uses a pair of blued and fully engraved single-action revolvers fitted with ivory stocks. A beautiful...
They came out in droves for William F. Cody’s funeral back in 1917. Some 25,000 folks passed through the capitol rotunda in Denver, Colorado, where...
Robert LeRoy Parker—born April 13, 1866, in the small town of Beaver, Utah, to Mormon parents Maximilian and Ann Parker—spent his early years in...
“I make the world’s greatest museum thief ... and they know about it!” If you can’t tell already, Jack Smith is an avid historical craftsman, to the...
While it’s true that wine, beer and whiskey were largely consumed in most Western saloons, many also offered fancy mixed drinks. They were quite...