The Seven Rivers Warriors started off as a group of small ranchers around Lincoln County, NM. But when the Lincoln County War broke out, they went...
Lawman Wages
The question often comes up about what kind of pay peace officers received in days of the Old West. Salaries varied quite a bit. A deputy U.S....
Rimmy Jim Giddings
Route 66 had some colorful characters operating roadside stops in the first half of the twentieth century and one of the most colorful was Rimmy Jim...
Cherokee Stories
When Robert J. Conley died in 2014, the Cherokee Nation and Western literature lost a tremendous voice. Evelyn Conley, his widow and driving force,...
A Killer Gets His
Frank McNab (or MacNab) was second in command of The Regulators, the Lincoln County (NM) outfit that tried to settle the score for the murder of...
The Comanche and his Horse
The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians. For the first time it gave them a wide range...
Railroad Water Tanks
While watching westerns on television and movies you see trains pull up and stop at a water tower and fill up the steam engine. How did those pumps...
You Gotta Die Right to be an Icon
Many famous outlaws died robbing banks and trains. Some, however, died in peculiar ways. For example, during a train robbery the Tall Texan, Ben...
The Taos Revolt
Hispanics and Puebloans in present day New Mexico were concerned in 1847. The US had just taken over the region, and the natives feared they would...
The Council Hill Fight
March 19, 1840. A contingent of Comanches came to San Antonio’s Council House for a peace conference with Texian authorities. But things went...
Nellie Cashman, Angel of the Mining Camps: Part 2
Nellie Cashman’s many requests for donations to charitable causes brought her in contact with cowboys, miners, gamblers, outlaws and the ladies of...
Borderland Mystery
If These Walls Could Talk by James D. Crownover is a complex fictional story with a plethora of characters set in southern New Mexico and Arizona in...