If Johnny Ringo had participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight, what do you think the outcome would have been? John Burton Via the Internet...
Ida May and Edith Eudora Ammon homesteaded in North Dakota in the 1880s, expecting their venture to be a lark. They intended proving up, getting...
For most of the last century, historians believed Billy the Kid never appeared on a...
June 25, 1876 George Armstrong Custer’s mind is racing with military strategies and tactics. As usual, he is reacting to a fluid battle situation...
Francis Parkman wrote in his journal in 1846 that “Once among the buffalo, the hunter, unless long use has made him familiar with the situation,...
When a Cowboy’s in a pinch, he just tightens up the cinch, spurs his horse and rides right through it ’cause that’s the way the Duke’d do it. He’d...
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” Mark Twain once said. Obviously, Samuel Langhorne Clemens never met...
July 12, 1861 David McCanles, his son William and two employees ride up to Rock Creek Station, Nebraska Territory. Leaving his two hired hands at...
With a Union Pacific mileage book in hand, Frank Tenney Johnson realized his dream to travel the West by rail. When Johnson saw Pike’s Peak in the...
There’s something special about a man who likes to dress the way he drinks, keeping the same brand, no matter where he goes. These days, that’s a...
Vera McGinnis was well aware one of the world’s richest and most exotic men was in the audience that September night in 1926 when she put on her...
This April, Touchstone Pictures (a subsidiary of Disney) released a $75 million-plus film The Alamo, which reinterpreted this most famous of...