Kathleen Holt would like to say that she skateboarded in front of the 1886 hotel, as she was growing up in Cimarron, Kansas, some 50 years ago, and dreamed of owning the precious place where, as she puts it, “cowboys went to get the heck out of Dodge.” Oh, she did skateboard in front of this Santa Fe Trail hotel that gave comfort to gunfighters Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Luke Short, but the tree roots that grew through the sidewalk irritated her. No, she came to this hotel “kicking a

June 2014
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- Bad Hand Mackenzie
- The Northern Plains to the Pacific Northwest
- Dead Is Better
- The Gang Slayer
- Treasures of the Old West
- A Man to Match the Land
- Did Doc Holliday Hunt Down Old Man Clanton?
- Custer Captured
- Beware of the Candied Cherries
- Mark Lee Gardner
- Happy 100th Birthday, Allan Houser
- A Wild Western Zine
- The Myths of a Border Warrior
- Life and Death of a Ranger
- Roaring Twenties Cowboy Noir
- An Open Wound
- Territorial Greed: Sins and Sinners of the Santa Fe Ring Revealed
- In the Tombstone Territory TV series, why are the characters given fake names when the show was based on real events?
- How did cowboys brush their teeth?
- When did billiards become popular in the Old West?
- Did Old West-style gunfights take place after 1910?
- Was Tom Horn really guilty of the murder for which he was hanged?
- The Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7
- The “Shoot Today, Kill Tomorrow” Gun
- Where Cody Lives
- Saving Luke Short’s Hotel
- Mountain Man Rediscovered
- Rough Drafts 6/14
- Robert J. Conley
- June 2014 Events