In my senior year of high school, I wrote a paper on outlaws and gunmen. One was shot in the back by a Frenchman. Do you know who it was? Eugene...
Lists of Plains Indian property captured by the army in the 1860-70s often mention “crowbars.” Why would the Plains Indians, who I thought travelled...
Why do almost all the Old West characters wear handkerchiefs around their necks in TV shows and movies? Laurie S. Dell Brunswick, Maine The...
With a face seen by millions because it has been on more than 100 TV documentaries and a career as a professor of history at the University of New...
Curly Bill Brocius is holding court in Galeyville, Arizona, with his cow-boy cohorts. Jim Wallace, a veteran of the Lincoln County War, rides up on...
In the midst of a prisoner exchange negotiation, two men enter William Clarke Quantrill’s camp, four miles northeast of Lee’s Summit, Missouri,...
This year, Dusty Richards will see his 67th book published, some under his own name, many others under a bevy of pseudonyms. He has also written...
December 28, 1881 Suspicion points to Ike Clanton, Johnny Ringo Curly Bill Brocius, Hank Swilling and Frank Stilwell...take your pick! Three days...
A Charles Russell fake was pulled before the C.M. Russell art auction on March 16-19 in Great Falls, Montana, but its replacement brought a bang-up...
Many deserving Old West lawmen have not received their due in history. We all know the ones who have questionable aspects to their careers and were...
Trick Pony captured center stage of the national music scene only three years ago when they were named Top New Vocal Group by the Academy of Country...
Doc Holliday first saw Denver in 1876. Although his reputation was made in Texas, Dodge City and certainly Tombstone, it was to Colorado that he...