Personal ads are not only a craze of modern dating. All throughout the 1800s, females were in scarce supply on the frontier, and men begged decent...
HEARTS WEST: TRUE STORIES OF MAIL-ORDER BRIDES ON THE FRONTIER
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TO SAVE THE WILD BISON
I had no idea. I mean, anyone who knows American history is aware of the important and symbolic role the buffalo played in both the white and Indian...
Spanning Washington: Historic Bridges of the Evergreen State
You don’t have to know trestles and trusses from cantilevers to enjoy this extra-illustrated and surprisingly interesting book. Perhaps the Pacific...
UNBRIDLED: THE WESTERN HORSE IN FICTION AND NONFICTION
Only on the Western Plains did the horse reach its most typical American development. In fact, would there have been a West as we know it without...
Kid Exhumation Nixed
Nobody is going to dig up Billy the Kid. Nor his Mom. And anyone who still wonders if young Billy was killed 123 years ago by Sheriff Pat Garrett—as...
A Cowboy’s Cowboy-song Singer
Everybody loves the Westerns Channel—beloved reruns of famous Westerns, with TV legends Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy, and classic cowboys like...
Sheridan, Wyoming
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award, each issue will showcase the local flavor at one of...
Billings Fills the Bill
She was one of my first loves. She stood watch over Main Street of my hometown, ancient brick with the year 1905 near the top of her facade. I used...
Love Lies Bleeding
Captain Harry Love was in a bad way in June of 1868. It had been 15 years since his greatest triumph—tracking and killing the California bandit...
No Quarter
The night of October 18, 1915, was relatively normal for the passengers on board the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad train—until around...
How The New York Herald Scooped the U.S. Army on Custer
Custer stories never seem to die out. But even if Custer had never been a part of this story, it would be a good one, involving among other things a...
Texas Tornados & Hoosier Maniacs
Texas badman has such a great ring to it. And, in terms of old West history, it’s one of those rare exceptions where legend meets the truth and is a...