The rangeland of Arizona had pretty strict ideas when it came to stealing livestock yet it can’t be denied that a lot of cow outfits got...
Branding Cattle: The XXX
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Schemer, Lou Blonger
Lou Blonger was a man of many hats. He was a miner, a saloon and bawdy house owner, a gambler, a lawman (for a very brief time). And with his...
Hotel Escalante the Grand Harvey House in Ash Fork, Arizona
The town of Ash Fork was born in 1882 when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which later became the Santa Fe arrived. It was one of five...
Mescalero Melee
On August 5, 1878, Billy the Kid and the Regulators, riding 19 strong, come down through the canyon leading to the Mescalero Apache Agency in...
Uncle Jim’s Last Gunfight
The Old West was quickly fading from reality into myth by the mid-1920’s. Most of the old time gunfighters had gone on to their great reward and...
The Lost Adams Diggings
Somewhere out in these rugged mountains of eastern Arizona, just maybe lies the greatest lost mine of them all…the Lost Adams Diggings. Because of...
A Bloody Ranger Battle
The Conner family had been running roughshod in east Texas for several years when Texas Rangers went after them. In late March 1887, the two groups...
The Escape of Augustine Chacon
Augustine Chacon was one of the last of the hard-riding desperadoes who rode the outlaw trail in the closing days of the 19th century. He was a...
Marvin “Red” Burton
Marvin “Red” Burton is in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. But one of his bravest acts came as a McLellan County deputy sheriff. He and the sheriff...
Friends in Film
John Wayne had a number of actors that he liked working with (and made sure that they had plenty of film opportunities). Hank Worden was toward the...
Joe Felmer’s Mule
Old timers used to say, “Anybody who’s ever tried to put a braid in a mule’s tale knows a thing or two more about the subject than someone who...
A Different Blazing Saddles?
John Wayne almost made an appearance in the comedy Western, Blazing Saddles. Director Mel Brooks was eating lunch in the Warner Bros. commissary one...