Before Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone, the Earp Brothers were more notorious than heroic.
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Earps Gone Wild
Brothers Wyatt and Morgan’s “bum” year pimping in Peoria, Illinois, primed them for their future as frontier boomtown opportunists on both sides of the law.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Glorified, fictionalized and hotly debated, the enigmatic lawman’s life from antebellum Illinois to urban Los Angeles remains iconically fascinating 90 years after his death.
Wyatt Earp: The West’s Dark Knight
The Man, The Myth And The Search for Order.
The Best of the West: True Westerner of the Year 2020
Presenting the West from a whole new perspective, Michael J. Fox.
What History Has Taught Me: Will Bagley, Historian
Will Bagley has written or edited 25 books on overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining and the Mormons. He rafted down the Mississippi River in 1969, performed country music from Wyoming to Nevada, and has forgotten everything he learned as journeyman carpenter. Between 2000 and 2004, the Salt Lake Tribune published about 225 of his columns and articles. Bagley has won too many prizes to list here, but his favorite is Western Writers of America’s Owen Wister Award.
Bogus Marshals, Tintypes and Rebel Yells
Ask The Marshall.
Western Roundup: January 2020
Art Shows, Auctions, Heritage Festivals, Poetry Gatherings, Rodeos, and more!
Wyatt Goes Rogue
Wyatt’s Posse vs Florentino Sais.
The Earp Rap Sheet
Before Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone, the Earp Brothers were more notorious than heroic.
The Laws Railroad Museum
Volunteers dedicated to the Old West have kept a beloved historic site alive near Bishop, California.
Frederick Schwatka
From fighting in the Great Sioux War to daring exploits in Alaska, the Oregon cavalryman had the right stuff.