Charles Bent was killed on January 19, 1847. Billy the Kid got shot dead on July 14, 1881. Pat Garrett bought the farm on February 29, 1908. But the...
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Johnny D. Boggs
The Three Godfathers
To put myself in the Christmas frame of mind, I plug in a DVD of my favorite holiday movie. But before you get the wrong idea, I’m not shouting...
Modern-Day Treasure Hunt
The way Forrest Fenn puts it, the treasure chest includes: 265 gold coins; nuggets; a Spanish 17th-century gold ring with a large emerald;...
History and Art Along the High Road
A broken wagon spoke deserves all the credit. Think about it. Needing to repair their wagon, Eastern artists Bert Geer Phillips and Ernest Leonard...
Soaking Up the Truth
My pal Robert Nott describes the decor of the Fire Water Lodge as “Early Aldo Ray.” You don’t have to be a movie buff to visualize this place’s...
The Pies Have It
It’s the night before the annual pie festival in the aptly named Pie Town, New Mexico, and Michael Rawl is still inside the Good Pie Café, chatting...
On the Trail of Warring Parties
A few years ago, I was having dinner with a Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area representative, talking about—what else?—the Civil War in...
BBQ, Baseball & Beef
Kansas City, here we come. In this cosmopolitan city, you can get fat—literally and figuratively—on food and history. To wit: Barbecue: Kansas City...
Following an American Patriot
On this summer month, when most Civil War minds think about the events 150 years ago at a town called Gettysburg, I’d like to draw your attention to...
The Missing Lincoln
A friend once told me a story about being alone with the Lincolns at Honest Abe’s tomb. As it doesn’t get more American than that, I figured I had...
A Feel-Good Story
The first time I visited the Pine Ridge Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota, I stopped at the Wounded Knee Memorial—and I couldn’t...
Top Five Koblas Reads
At any moment, Minnesota native John J. “Jack” Koblas was likely to break out into an animated talk about baseball, Science Fiction, Horror or...