GAMBLER JOHNNY MURPHY WAS THE FACE OF AN ICONIC WESTERN PHOTO. Eight months after the murder of notorious Irish gunfighter James Leavy in front of...
The Luck of the Irish
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Erik J. Wright
A Tragic Hero
Review of Patricia Tyson Stroud’s Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis.
Golden Jayhawkers
After news of the discovery of gold in California in 1848, thousands of individuals made their way to the west coast of America. Fueled by the...
Cattle King of the West
State Historian of Texas Bill O’Neal’s latest book, John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King, explores the life and times of Chisum’s legendary role as a...
Battle-Tested in the Rockies
In 1925, Kathryn Downing-Smith, the wife of one of Patrick Gass’s grandsons, wrote a letter to her niece Pearl about Gass. She offered keen insight...
Victorio Rides Again
Chiricahua Apache leader Victorio was so determined to maintain the freedom of his people that he proclaimed that not one hair from a horse’s tail...
What History Has Taught Me: Erik J. Wright
Erik J. Wright is an emergency management coordinator in northeast Arkansas and has kept his passion for the Old West alive through his writing and...
Looking for Doc in Dallas
Imagine sitting at the dentist, getting a routine check up, when suddenly the doctor coughs in your face—and again, several times during the...