Not four months after the bloodshed at Wounded Knee, 75 Lakota Indians—including 23 presumed “hostiles” who had been confined at Fort Sheridan,...
Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
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Johnny D. Boggs
Following the Bootmaker Trail
Tourists go on whiskey tours in Scotland, bootmaker Lee Miller tells me, so why not take a custom bootmaker tour in America? Could get a little...
The Great Northfield Raid
Robbing the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, wasn’t the best career move The Boys ever made. The Boys included Frank and Jesse James,...
Cassidy Country’s Cool
It’s hard to get in a Butch Cassidy frame of mind in downtown Denver, but I’m trying. For one, I tell myself that the rooms in the Burnsley...
Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land
He sat motionless, starin’ ahead, aware of everythin’ around him. In this country, patience meant survival. Too often, the first to move became the...
An Untraditional, Quirky Western
Throw in one eclectic filmmaker (Tom Shell), a director who helped give Twin Peaks its creepy edge (Tim Hunter) and an Edgar Award-winning mystery...
The Klondike Gold Rush Trail
Alaska and the Canadian Northwest remain dangerous country. People get eaten by bears. They die of exposure. Probably a few are trampled by hordes...
Looking for Joe Leaphorn
Few novelists today are better at exploring the American West and expanding its literature than Tony Hillerman. That’s right. I mean Western...
Custer, Cowboys and the Man in Black
Johnny Cash is playing on the ol’ stereo. Okay, so that’s not news—his music is practically always playing on the stereo. But this is appropriate...
PBS Cowboys Up with Texas Ranch House
When freelance producer Luis Barreto presented his idea for a hands-on history PBS series to Craig Carter, the cowboy-wrangler told Barreto he was...
The Hanging Judge’s Town
The sky is blue, the sun warm, the birds are singing and the noise of traffic is practically nonexistent, yet there is gloominess, a feeling of...
No Horsin’ Around on Billy’s Last Ride
There are times when I really hate Billy the Kid. Such as now, head aching, hearing my horse’s hooves thundering in the distance and looking up to...