By the time he died in August 1895, John Wesley Hardin had finished about 200 pages of his autobiography, up to the year 1889. Researchers Chuck...
Losing Control
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Free Trappers
Basically there were only two types of trappers, the engage, or lowly company employee who worked for wages and the enterprising aristocrat of the...
The Rendezvous
Like gold dust on the mining frontier, beaver pelts acted as the medium of exchange in the mountains. Unique to the American experience was the...
The Most Dangerous Street in America
The Lincoln County War was exceptionally violent, and much of that violence occurred in the small town of Lincoln, New Mexico. But murder and mayhem...
Ask the Marshall
Did the Cowboys or the Pioneers use Snowshoes in Tough Winters?
Mountain Men
The first white men to venture “across the wide Missouri” were awed by the breathtaking sight of the majestic Rocky Mountains that loomed on the...
C.M. Russell Rides Again
On March 23, 2019, the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, held its annual live auction as the capstone to three days of programs, exhibits...
John Wesley Hardin’s Little Brother
John Wesley Hardin’s youngest brother Gip—like most of the men in the family—led a strange life. He was a Texas school teacher in 1896 when he...
Hawaiian Cowboys
What is the American West and where does it begin and end?” These questions have been debated consistently for well over a century, but after anyone...
On the Move
John Wesley Hardin’s older brother Joe had a hard time finding a final resting place. After Wes killed a Texas lawman in May 1874, vigilantes took...
A Collector Like No Other
Of course, he’d become one of the frontier’s most ardent historians and collectors because history called early to Doug McChristian. He’d always...
The Best of Intentions
Helen Hunt Jackson became interested in the plight of Native Americans in the latter half of the 19th Century. So she wrote Ramona, a melodramatic...