They said Cattle Kate was a dirty rustler and a filthy whore. They cried out, “rangeland justice,” when she became the only woman ever lynched in...
Dead Wrong About Cattle Kate
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Jana Bommersbach
Klondike Kickstarter
He was too young to read the message scratched on the back, but four-year-old Richard Fike knew he loved the carriage clock he had found in Alaska...
Keeping the Faith
Father Albert Braun didn’t have much outside his Purple Heart medal when the 30 year old returned from WWI in 1919—$100 in U.S. Army pay, three...
East Texas Treasure
"You people are crazy.” Those who knew Lera Millard Thomas can still hear her scold the city council of Nacogdoches, Texas, with those words. Lera...
Barker’s Riches
They laughed at Billy Barker when he and his crew went off to prospect for gold in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. But they stopped laughing...
Saving the Wall Street of the West
Say “Stockyards,” and everyone knows that means Fort Worth, Texas. Anyone visiting the city today is struck by how beautifully the historic...
Saving Luke Short’s Hotel
Kathleen Holt would like to say that she skateboarded in front of the 1886 hotel, as she was growing up in Cimarron, Kansas, some 50 years ago, and...
Spirit Warriors Rise Up
The Little Big Horn battlefield is the site of exquisite tragedy and triumph—depending on whose eyes are watching: tragedy for Lt. Col. George...
Saving Madam Jennie’s Place
If the old girl were still around—if Madam Jennie Bauters could see her “crib” and hotel now—she’d probably fan herself with an ostrich feather and...
The Last Bonanza Farm
Perhaps the greatest example in the Old West of making lemonade out of lemons is what happened in Dakota Territory in the 1870s. That’s when the...
The West’s Most Western Town
In Arizona’s high noon showdown over the brand the “West’s Most Western Town,” Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane and Cave Creek Mayor Vincent Francia faced...
Curtis’s Big Dream
Hers is a simple, worn face; mouth and eyes downturned—in sadness, in waiting, in remembrance? That humble portrait of an old woman—Princess...