A hidden assassin with a shotgun blasted Charles Lummis in the face and chest. He was bloodied, blown off his feet, and …
Herding with the Wind Bob Lemmons
He was standing there, as was his horse, Warrior, but both were invisible between the flashes. Shrieking winds cut the r…
The Mystery of the Great Medicine Gun Isaiah Quinby Lukens
Did Isaiah Lukens construct the air gun nicknamed “Great Medicine” that the 1803-’06 Corps of Discovery brought to impre…
Buckeye Gets Burned Talented artist John Mix Stanley never received his due.
With an anthropologist’s curiosity, an artist’s hands and an explorer’s heart, Western painter John Mix Stanley personal…
Southwest Crusader Charles F. Lummis
Charles F. Lummis was two years old when he experienced his first loss—the death of his mother from consumption on April…
Chalkley Sheriff Beeson soothed the savage beast with his brand of cowboy music.
Chalkley McArtor “Chalk” Beeson, the last of seven kids from Quaker parents Samuel and Martha, was born in Salem, Ohio, …
Señora Doña Maria Luz Corral de Villa Pancho Villa’s widow had a life of fame and martyrdom.
Doña Luz wasn’t the only woman in his life, nor even the only woman who claimed to be his wife. But the striking blue-ey…
Esther Ross The Prescott girl’s christening of the USS Arizona symbolized the start of a new era of the West.
A century ago, the 17-year-old daughter of an ambitious Prescott, Arizona, pharmacist had traveled over three days and 2…
Erwin E. Smith A Texas photographer eternalized the working cowboy with his Kodak.
Texan Erwin Evans Smith is regarded as one of the greatest photographers of the day-to-day life of the cowboy in the Ame…
Ely S. Parker Straddling two cultures, he saved two nations.
Seneca Indian Ely S. Parker was born Hasanoanda, which means “Leading Name,” in 1828 as his parents William and Elizabet…