These days in Arizona, if you say Sharlot Hall, most think of the fine museum of that name in Prescott. However, Sharlot Hall was a real woman with...
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Jana Bommersbach
Never Was a “Cattle Kate”
Perhaps the most shocking thing about the only woman ever lynched in the nation as a cattle rustler is that everything about this western legend is...
A Woman Branded Wyoming Territory
In cattlecrazy W.T., where brands were sacrosanct, it all started with a woman! The first registered cattle brand in Wyoming Territory was owned by...
How Hot was That Coffee?
If there was one thing no cowboy could do without it was his coffee. A pot was always on the campfire, and every cabin cherished its supply of...
Every Decent Old West Restaurant Table Held….
A bottle of a mustard pickle relish! In his autobiography, noted western surveyer Billy Owen wrote that restaurant tables in his day included “the...
Just How Many Buffalo Were There?
Enough that when Indians wanted to find them for a hunt, they'd get up very early in the morning and look over the horizon for a little cloud. There...
The Poet Bandit
Pearl Hart was the “Lady Bandit” who pulled off the last stagecoach heist in the Old West outside Globe, Arizona Territory in 1899. She also was a...
“It’s My Obsession”
Legendary rock musician Phil Collins doesn’t exactly believe in psychics, but he has to admit, he feels eerie about this: A clairvoyant once told...
The Ball that Killed Wild Bill
If Wild Bill Hickok was buried in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, why was the bullet that killed him buried in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910? You...
The West’s Newest Museum
We will be a living institution. We will offer experiences. We will be the storytellers.” That’s how museum director Michael J. Fox describes his...
The Burden Basket Struggle
Just 81 words tell the story—but they’re powerful enough to represent the struggle and courage of the Yavapai-Apache people of Arizona’s Verde...
Dirt Floor Paradise
Charles Goodnight—the “Father of the Texas Panhandle”—was not a man who took no for an answer. In 1877, when he ordered his brothers-in-law to build...