To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...
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Sheridan, Wyoming
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award, each issue will showcase the local flavor at one of...
In the Eye of the Beholder
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. But in the case of the purported tintype of Belle Starr, which sold for $7,000 during...
Placing Blame
Just after dawn on November 29, 1864, elements of the First and Third Colorado Regiments commanded by Col. John M. Chivington attacked a peaceful...
10 Things about the Pony Express
You probably didn’t know. • The idea behind a relay mail service didn’t originate with the Pony Express; it was first proposed in 13th-century...
Cremello
Blue-eyed Cremello and Perlino horses were once called Albinos, but now the American Quarter Horse Association has ceased using the term in its...
Style of the Texas Rangers
Texas Ranger—a man’s man and a woman’s hero—men whose grit was their glamour. The lawmen who wore the Lone Star badge would never have guessed...
Ten Paces
No, he didn’t. No contemporary newspaper attributed the deed to Holliday. The first mention of Holliday’s involvement wasn’t until July 20, 1881,...
Bill Tilghman’s “Prairie Queen”
This is a story that George W. Bolds told me. In Dodge City he was known as “Cimarron George.” I made notes, wrote the story and have his...
History of the Cowboy
From about 1870 until the late 1930s, one style of hat reigned supreme on the Mexican border—the Sugarloaf Sombrero—named for the crown’s...