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The Best of Butch’s Wild Bunch
How the real outlaws who rode and robbed from Montana to Bolivia became cinema heroes.
Ask the Marshall
Was the Civil War Vintage LeMat Revolver Ever Modified to take Brass Cartridges?
Blood, Love and Brotherhood
W.K. Stratton’s The Wild Bunch sets a new standard for film-biography, and new biographies of an Army scout and Estaban, the diary of pioneer John Benton Hart and a novelized memoir of outlaw Cole Younger.
Mystery Man of the West
The Apache Kid is one of the most mysterious figures in Old West history. The one-time Indian scout for the army. But things went bad in 1887 when...
Off the Rails
The James-Younger Gang’s first train robbery didn’t go as planned. It was outside Adair, Iowa on July 21, 1873. At least nine outlaws dislodged the...
The Frontier’s Movable Kitchen
Traditional chuck wagon cooking can be enjoyed at a local festival or right at home.
A Wild Time for Wild Bill
A bar in Hays City, Kansas, on July 17, 1870. Two 7th Cavalry troopers jump Wild Bill Hickok, a continuation from an earlier disagreement. One of...
The Fairbank Train Robbery
The railroad arrived in what became town of Fairbank in 1881. It was the closest rail link to the boom town of Tombstone, at the time one of the...
1911 Pistol Goes Western
Used in the West of early 1990s, the classic auto pistol looks right at home in frontier-style gunleather.
Leadville, Colorado
Leadville was one of the greatest boom towns in Western History. Miners struck silver in 1877 and the rush was on. During that first decade...
High Country Adventure
Discover the Old West while relaxing in 10 of our favorite cool, mountain getaways.