In 1835, a small group of Cherokees traded the tribe’s land east of the Mississippi River for land in the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma)....
“I Will Laugh No More While Living”
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Santos Furniture
Lester Santos, owner of Santos Furniture in Cody, Wyoming, doesn’t build furniture. Rather, he creates works of art that just happen to be tables,...
Puttin’ the Hirt on Your Head
Tom Hirt is one of the most respected makers of cowboy hats today—with good reason. You won’t find any cookie-cutter-type headware at his...
Country Crossover Colorado Style
Rail bending is a little known skill that was once used to derail trains, a nasty trick dating back to the Civil War. Men who succeeded in setting a...
Luck of the Draw
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...
State of the Union
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,...
Wind River Historical Center
When you think of Butch Cassidy, you probably don’t imagine him as a rancher in the Dubois badlands of the upper Wind River Valley. But during the...
Seventh Cavalry Sells High
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...
Kill Bill
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...
Digging Up Billy the Kid’s Mother
This is a unique moment in jurisprudence where law, history, legend, myth and modern criminology come simultaneously to the forefront in a single...
He Speaks the Language
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...
Silver J Western Wear
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...