When the first explorers of the early 19th century ventured west beyond the Mississippi River, they carried long, slender and somewhat delicate medium-bore Pennsylvania-style rifles.
They quickly found that while such arms were practical for foot travel and the game found back East, this Western region abounded with bigger and more dangerous animals, such as the ferocious grizzly and buffalo. Even game like the elk needed more power to bring down; more surely then available in most of the

July 2013
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- Billy the Kid’s New Mexico
- Custer’s Little Bighorn Battlefield
- Quanah Parker’s Comanche Country
- Tombstone’s O.K. Corral
- Stalwart Army Sweethearts
- Was Bass Reeves the Real Lone Ranger?
- Tom Mix’s Wild West
- Gold Rush Country
- Great Road Reads
- A Poor Man’s Search for Charlie Russell
- Bloody Siege at Milk Creek
- Searching for The Searchers
- A Mandan Circle Unbroken
- Lee Marvin: Point Blank
- Death by Rolling Pin?
- What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico?
- Mysterious Dave
- Power on the Plains
- This is a Hold Up
- Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73?
- Not a Pipe Dream
- Following an American Patriot
- Bloody Sunday Riot
- Left for Dead
- Fort Smith, Arkansas
- July 2013 Events
- Casey Tefertiller
- When were photos first put on wanted posters?
- I’ve read that Sheriff John Behan was a scoundrel in Tombstone during the trouble years. Is that the case?
- Cheyenne / The Boy From Oklahoma
- The Mysterious Journey of Billy the Kid’s Trigger Finger
- The Missing Lincoln
- Billy the Kid is best known for his time in New Mexico, but did he also spend time in Arizona?
- New Releases-Historical Fiction
- New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
- Hot Summer Reads