His true name remains a mystery. Some accounts say it was William Brocius Graham while others claim it was William Bresnaham or William Graham but...
Curly Bill Brocius: Before Tombstone
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The Wild Bunch Often Hung Out at Fannie Porter’s Bordello in Texas. Where was it? Movies Say Fort Worth or San Antonio.
The Wild Bunch often hung out at Fannie Porter’s bordello in Texas. Where was it? Movies say Fort Worth or San Antonio. Terry Priddy - Pipe Creek,...
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is considered a classic. The 1962 film—directed by Sam Peckinpah—starred Joel McRea as a washed up marshall hired to protect...
Apache White Captive Child Santiago McKinn
On a balmy September morning in the little valley east of the Mimbres Mountains in southwest New Mexico, seventeen-year-old Martin McKinn and his...
Lucky Cuss
The tall, lanky prospector brushed back his thick, matted, unkempt hair and looked out across a jumble of high mesa hills, scanning the rough...
Shootouts at High Noon
“The most of the men I have killed it was one or t’other of us, and as sich times you don’t stop to think; and what’s the use after it’s all over?”...
The Peacemaker
Myth is based on what we would like to believe while Legend takes the truth and enhances its meaning across the passage of time. The West was a land...
Man Hunters
Robert DeArment, the dean of outlaw-lawman historians, is still producing remarkable books at the age of 92. His latest, Man-Hunters of the Old West...
Domhnall Gleeson as Captain Andrew Henry in The Revenant
Actor Domhnall Gleeson is probably best known to Western fans as Captain Andrew Henry in The Revenant. He abandons a wounded Hugh Glass in the...
The Myth and Legend of the West Captured in Art
Artist Thom Ross is well known for his Western works, with efforts ranging from Tombstone to the Little Bighorn and Buffalo Bill. The Santa Fe...
The Tombstone Millionaire
One of the almost-forgotten men in the founding of Tombstone was Dick Gird. He was a respected assayer at a mine north of the area, and Gird first...
A True West How To: Tie a Cowboy Buckaroo Knot
Here's our good friend and Old West fashion expert, Larry Bitterman of The Old Frontier Clothing Company explaining how to tie a Cowboy Buckaroo...