The Courageous Life and Death of Oliver Loving In 1867, beneath a bluff a few miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, two Texas cattlemen—one of them a...
Ambushed on the Pecos
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Frederick Nolan
The Birth of an Outlaw
Ever since 1952, when Bob Mullin and Phil Rasch found the marriage record of William Antrim and the Kid’s mother, Catherine McCarty, the truth about...
How Did the Kid Get the Gun?
I have always doubted that, on the day Billy the Kid launched his do-or-die escape attempt from the Lincoln County Courthouse, he and Deputy James...
“What if everything we know about Billy the Kid is wrong?”
One hundred thirty-four years have passed since Billy the Kid’s daring escape from the Lincoln County jail in New Mexico Territory. Sixty-three...
Deadly Feud Truths Revealed
Historians know that they need sympathetic understanding of the lives they are examining, but also that no one can tell them how or where to find...
In the Shadow of Billy the Kid
Kathleen P. Chamberlain delivers a masterly biography that examines the part that Susan McSween, this “intriguing, frustrating and wonderfully...
So, Who was Dan Dedrick?
His real name was Daniel Charles Dietrich. Born of Pennsylvania Dutch stock in Indiana on January 25, 1847, he grew up near Plymouth, Kansas....
What Would Billy Say?
With the convoluted and contested efforts during the past decade to dig up Billy the Kid, we wondered what a Billy the Kid expert might ask the...
How to Get Rich Buying Books
Back in 1986, while participating in an “archaeological dig” at the site of the McSween house in Lincoln, New Mexico, I first met Bob McCubbin. To...
What the Brits are Doing for the West
As any reader of True West knows, interest in the Old West is worldwide—people love reading about the Earps and Custer, Billy the Kid and Geronimo...
She Taught the Kid a Lesson
So little information exists about the childhood and youth of Billy the Kid that many of us, happening upon the merest morsel, swallow it eagerly...
Wild West Conquers Europe
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked the question: How come you Brits are so interested in the American West? And I know for a...