Lon Butherous Via the Internet As far as anyone knows, Wyatt was never recorded on cinematic film. The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp...
Gordon Anderson doesn’t believe it, but some of his friends and guests and even a former maid think his Larian Motel is haunted. Gordon says he’s...
Shouting the name of Diane Zamost’s Santa Fe vintage and vintagelike Western wear company makes most folks want to climb on a horse and head out on...
The closest the surviving Younger brothers ever got to heaven was a prison guard who may be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. “Barney”...
On September 11, 1857, 120 men, women and children—pioneers from Arkansas headed for California—were massacred after being promised safe passage...
The new biography Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, recently published by Alfred A. Knoph, will no doubt cause some waves. Author T.J....
Could you give me some information on a Bud Ledbetter? Howard Ledbetter Rathdrum, Idaho James F. “Bud” Ledbetter was one of the great lawmen of the...
Where can I learn more about cattle driver Charlie Goodnight? Did he drive cattle on the Chisholm Trail or what trail? Stace Webb Via the Internet...
Do you pronounce rodeo “ro-dee-o” or “ro-day-o”? Frank Dean Omaha, Nebraska The proper Spanish pronunciation is ro-day-o. But like our use of a lot...
My maternal grandmother was born in 1880 and grew up in Wyoming. She told me that when she was a very young girl she saw the body of Wild Bill...
Writers of nonfiction spend countless hours researching, but few are as dedicated about it as historical novelist James Alexander Thom. Not only...
Before the Oregon Trail, before the cattle drives, before Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp, fur trappers—mountain men—opened the West. In their...