When we see an Old West photograph in a book or magazine, can we believe the subject is who or what it is said to be? At one time, I believed...

When we see an Old West photograph in a book or magazine, can we believe the subject is who or what it is said to be? At one time, I believed...
"You’ve seen more Old West autograph forgeries in the last three years than in the previous 20 years combined.” It’s a pretty stunning statement,...
At the turn of the 20th century, Oregon presented opportunities that gripped its culturally diverse newcomers. Upon seeing the soft rolling plains...
Step aside Black Jack Ketchum, Bob Ford’s Smith & Wesson has hit your target. On November 9-10, 2003, Little John’s Auction Service’s firearms...
August 12, 1881 The Clanton Camp: Innocent Cowboys or “a Viper’s Nest” of Outlaws? A group of some 25 American cowboys has been raiding in Northern...
Cherokee novelist Robert J. Conley is perhaps best known for busting stereotypes in traditional Western fiction. What may be surprising, however, is...
If you write it, the publishers will come. Actually, that usually happens only in the movies ... and besides, the reference is to a baseball field...
A tourist at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado isn’t impressed. Isn’t impressed by the torched scenery. Isn’t impressed by the history. “I was...
In 2002, I worked on one of the hot new films of the season—Hidalgo, to be released in March 2004. This action packed Western is based on the legend...
The West was still wild around the edges when a bit of it was captured on a stamp set commemorating the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, held in Omaha,...
The first time Vera McGinnis entered the Big Top at Madison Square Garden in New York City, she looked like a giant Dresden Doll. She was atop a...
Hidalgo- In case there’s any question that history and the Old West are again “hot” in Hollywood, Disney’s Touchstone Pictures is releasing an $80...