It was one of the most outrageous quotes of the Old West about one of the most barbaric crimes. In 1883, a 34-year-old tracker named Alferd Packer...
Eating His Weight in Democrats
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Jana Bommersbach
Breaking Out More Shovels
If anyone knows Billy the Kid, it’s the sheriff in the town that claims to hold the outlaw’s grave. Sheriff Gary Graves has ridden the “last ride of...
Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
If Vera McGinnis’ love story were a Country Western song, it would go something like this: “He dragged her heart around that ring, that handsome...
Narcissa Whitman
There were really two Americas in the 1800s, separated by the...
Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
If Vera McGinnis’ love story were a Country Western song, it would go something like this: “He dragged her heart around that ring, that handsome...
National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame
It doesn’t get much better than this: watching fancy marksmanship by Annie Oakley on film that was shot by Thomas Edison. Right off, you know you’re...
Vera McGinns
She hardly even tried to describe the pain, but of course, how could she? What words are there to recount a ton of horseflesh landing on your tiny...
From Shovels to DNA
You could hear the two shots all over Lincoln, New Mexico: noon, April 28. The date is historic: on that day in 1881, history tells us Billy the Kid...
Hubbard Museum of the American West
When the “Gunfighter” comes to the Hubbard Museum of the American West this summer, it will be the latest in a string of impressive displays that...
Cottonwood Canyon Ranch
The original pioneers came to the land as explorers, as dreamers—claiming a hunk of dirt to make a life. They came, as historians remind us, “not to...
The Pony Express
America was exploding in the mid-1800s. From coast to coast, it was a time of great anxiety—the Civil War was looming, the Mexican War was waging,...
High Desert Museum
How fascinating, yet chilling to have a golden eagle watch you from just a few feet away. It’s an experience found in few places, but it happens...