No more unusual story has emerged from Texas’s long and bitter struggle for independence than that of John Christopher Columbus Hill. The account of a boy’s fortitude and defiance in the face of almost certain death is all the more remarkable for being absolutely true.
Barely 13 when he first took up his rifle to face Mexico’s

October 2016
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- The First Woman to “Despise” Polygamy
- The Explosion
- John Bozeman’s Legacy
- Frank Hamer’s Recuperation in Pecos
- Legendary Lady of the West
- Struggling for a Dream
- In Frederic Remington’s Aiding a Comrade, what is the name of the holder that carries two of the men’s rifles on the front of their saddles?
- Pancho’s Pension
- Building Your Western Library
- Gambling with Men’s Lives
- A River of Life
- Yellowstone’s Early Explorer
- Virgil’s Sixgun
- Mogollon Rim
- A Formidable Foe
- Road to Destiny
- George Parsons: Tombstone Insider
- The Noble Trickster
- A Holdup for the Ages
- The Storied Hashknife
- What do you have to say about my favorite movie cowboy, Lash LaRue?