Heavily armed men are lying in wait for me when I pull into the Holiday Inn Express—enough to make me nervous. I try to make it to my room...
Following Wyatt Earp
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A Trail of Two Cities
I’m sneaking across the Missouri River, as it may be safer traveling incognito. It seems I ticked off a resident or two the last time I mentioned...
Lost Riders of the Segregated Cinema
They were the trailblazers of their day—a visionary group of actors, writers, directors, producers and businessmen whose stage was the old Negro...
From Outlaw Hideouts to Cozy Cabins
Ned Christie’s cabin was under attack. More than two dozen lawmen surrounded the Indian Territory home in November 1892. They were trying to capture...
Wild West Conquers Europe
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked the question: How come you Brits are so interested in the American West? And I know for a...
Cowboy Toys & More
“Some toys make noise, some toys waste time, then there are the toys which provide engines for the imagination,” says Armando Roggio, owner of...
“Homos on the Range”
The most surprising thing about homosexuality in the Old West is not that it...
A Nation of Hunters
Before and after the coming of European settlers, hunting game was an important aspect of Indian life. Jamestown founder John Smith relates the...
Country Music Without Prejudice
Big and Rich have reached the heights. To be a little more specific, they’ve scaled some Western U.S. mountain peaks over 14,000 feet high. The boys...
Flint Custom Hatters
David is now the happy owner of Flint Custom Hatters (www.flinthat.com) in Lubbock, Texas, but before he took up the trade, he was an Agricultural...
Bisley Bops the Bull’s-Eye
The sleek-looking Colt Bisley revolver traces its beginnings to the closing decades of the 19th century, when the sport of target shooting was...
Stark Visions of Frontier History
Last year marked the first time since Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves (1990) that a Western was at the center of a broad and often contentious...