I had a question the other day asking if the U.S. Cavalry had remudas like the Old West cattle drives. I’ve never come across anything referring to...
Frank Wattron wore many hats during his years in Holbrook. Along with running his drugstore, he was the first elected Sheriff of Navajo County in...
George McJunkin was a black cowboy who began riding the ranges at the end of the Civil War—when he was 14-years old. He was self-taught in reading...
Fort Griffin, Texas became infamous in its brief run. Founded in the Panhandle in 1867, the place was a magnet for folks like Doc Holliday, Wyatt...
Charlie Rath was one of those Old West success stories that could only happen in the U.S. Born in Germany, he came to America at the age of 11 in...
A few years ago an activist wrote a revisionist history about the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1837 claiming the U.S. Army deliberately infected a...
Ferd Patterson was a gambler and shootist who plied his trade on the West Coast in the 1850s and ‘60s. In 1861, he and some friends were on a...
In mining lingo, high grading was simply pilfering ore from the mine one’s employer. A miner might take a few choice pieces of ore home with him at...
Alec Barekman was kin by marriage to John Wesley Hardin. And when Wes went on the run after his first killings as a teenager, he hid out with the...
Ten years after renowned 89-year-old Santa Fe art dealer and True Westerner award-winner Forrest Fenn secretly hid a treasure of gold, gems and rare...
During the middle of the twentieth century the Ash Fork Livestock Company, run by Frank and Gene Campbell, was one of the biggest outfits in...
Sometimes the stories just aren’t true—and our friends point that out. Recently, we printed a blog entry about a massacre in Sailor’s Diggins,...