While watching Joe Kid and The Journeyman, I’ve noticed the use of Mausers. Was this gun typical of the period? Dick Jenkins Via the Internet The...
Have you heard of West Texas badman Charlie Small? George Cross Atlanta, Georgia You’re not going to believe this but Charlie Small was my...
When did they stop hanging men for horse theft? Also, what was the penalty after hanging was outlawed? Michael Austir Via the Internet There was an...
What did women use as hairspray years ago? Miss Kitty’s hair was always in place. Joe Pence Via the Internet Shampoo didn’t come into use until the...
May 27, 1837: A son, James Butler, the fifth child was born to William Alonzo and Polly Butler Hickok of Homer (later Troy Grove), Illinois. 1856:...
It’s been a number of years since anyone thought of San Francisco and its urbane Northern California environs as Western. But Jan Brandt discovered...
Larry Jay Martin did a lot of living before settling down and getting serious about his writing career. “I’ve been plane wrecked, car wrecked, boat...
This is a unique moment in jurisprudence where law, history, legend, myth and modern criminology come simultaneously to the forefront in a single...
August 25, 1896 Riding with a six-man posse that includes the deadly Dunn brothers, U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas meets two informants (the Noble...
As Autie, he was a boy loved and cherished by his family. But history remembers George Armstrong Custer as the former “boy general” whose rash...
They’re larger than life, these men and women of the Old West who are part of America’s history and its legacy. They were bigger and braver,...
General Santa Anna ordered every single Texan prisoner executed—men, fighting for the Republic of Texas. A total of 214 of them had been captured in...