“Grandma, you can find anything on YouTube,” Erin Ghedi’s 17-year-old granddaughter, Gabby, told her four years ag…
Buffallo Bill Busted He perfected the Wild West show, toured the world, got rich and then lost millions. What happened?
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a lucky man. From a hardscrabble youth that began in a log cabin in Iowa Territory, he g…
Keeping Movies Alive The world’s greatest collection of Western posters finds an Arizona home.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was among the first. Dr. Rennard Strickland found the movie poster for the 1962 John Fo…
Baseball’s Legacy Has Another Chapter
One of the little known stories about World War II is the part that baseball played—in the Japanese interment camps. Two…
Racism Can Get Ya Killed
RACISM CAN GET YA KILLED: That’s the message to misguided cowboys George Campbell and John Hale (who also was a dr…
Bust Cream, Anyone?
We think of the late 1800s as a time of Victorian refinement, with sensitivities so severe, one was to use the term “lim…
Paranoia Takes Jim Murhpy
DON’T LET THE PARANOIA GET YA: That’s what should have been etched on the tombstone of Jim Murphy. Jim was a…
The Cheapskate of All Time
OK, there are probably hundreds of examples of men (and women) being cheapskates—not paying what they owed, or haggling …
The Horseless Carriage Was Seriously Underestimated
“The horseless carriage…will never come into as common use as the bicycle,” the Literary Digest declared in 1899—t…
Shopping from Home in 1897 with Sears Roebuck
Here’s a sampling of what one could shop for in 1897 in the Sears Roebuck Catalogue, known officially as the “Cons…