After 17 years as a high school teacher, band director and varsity baseball coach in his home state of Oklahoma, Roy Young opened stores specializing in sporting goods and baseball cards.
He also spent 50 years preaching for rural Church of Christ ministries. An author of Wild West history books, he is a former president of WOLA and the Oklahombres.
When WOLA and NOLA merged into Wild We

True West July 2018
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- The Constable Butcher
- How come C.S. Fly didn’t take Photos of the Tombstone Street Fight?
- What History Has Taught Me: Roy Young
- What was the Fare for Railroads and Stagecoaches?
- Cold-Blooded Conman
- Did Old West Shooters have Problems with Overheated Gun Barrels?
- What were Old West Hotels like?
- A Cold Ride into Hell
- How Many People Died During the Indian Wars?
- A Texas Dance For Johnny Reb
- An Artist’s Artist
- Miss Yakama Nation’s Yakama War
- Big Horn Getaway: Buffalo, Wyoming
- Along with Tom Mix, who helped carry Wyatt Earp’s Casket?
- The Road to and from China