Larry McMurtry’s novel, Boone’s Lick, is under negotiation to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The Universal Studios film will be adapted by McMurtry...
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Skeletons of the Sahara
American sailors shipwrecked off the North African Coast in 1815 are sold into slavery in DreamWorks and Intermedia’s Skeletons of the Sahara, based...
Was Tom Horn a hired gun in the Pleasant Valley War?
Roland Sherry Clark Via the Internet Horn was allegedly a friend of Ed Tewksbury, whose feud with the Graham ranch resulted in the Pleasant Valley...
Do you think Custer was seeking glory at Little Bighorn? And would he have turned down a presidential nomination if offered?
Charles Avra Via the Internet Custer was undoubtedly looking for glory. He had become an outstanding cavalry officer because he possessed an...
Who was Billy Wilson?
Ron Mance Cicero, Illinois Billy Wilson was one of New Mexico’s Lincoln County warriors. He later became sheriff of Texas’ Terrell County, where he...
Did Frank James die in the last shoot-out with the Ford that was still living?
Richard Dalton Via Fax Frank James died peacefully of old age at the James farm in Clay County, Missouri, on February 18, 1915. His ashes were kept...
A True Country Brew
Barbequed with a hint of barley smoke could describe Sony Music’s new Western tunesmith and vocalist Trent Willmon. But whatever you do, don’t call...
Did the Indians really use smoke signals or is that something out of Hollywood?
Larry Smith Austria Sending messages by smoke signals was a simple form of communication used mostly by the Plains Indians and in the Southwest...
As a girl in Kingman, Arizona, I took music lessons from Mrs. Cole, whose husband Walter told me he had been The Tombstone Epitaph editor and that he coined the phrase “Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die.”
Marcella Bloomfield Middleton, New York Bill Kelley, editor of the Epitaph, organized the first Helldorado Days in 1929. The following year, he sold...
Are there pictures of Zwing Hunt?
Craig Brewer Fairdale, New York Zwing Hunt is one of the more interesting characters in the Tombstone saga, but there is no known photo of him. He...
Following the Arkansas River
I’m driving around Wichita, Kansas, looking for the Arkansas River and I can’t find it. That is probably because I’m pronouncing it like the state...
Can you tell me how the famous XIT Ranch in Texas got its name? And can you explain how cattle rustlers altered the brand?
Richard Diaz Shreveport, Louisiana In 1879, the Texas legislature appropriated three million acres of land in the Texas Panhandle to finance a new...