Cash for the Nellie Cashman It ain’t easy to maintain a historic landmark. Just ask the Skinners of Tombstone, Arizona. They own the Nellie Cashman...
Preservation: Cash for the Nellie Cashman
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Art, Guns and Culture
Surviving Geronimo’s Raiders
Long a sanctuary for people and animals seeking to escape scrutiny, the VO Slash Ranch near Nogales in southeastern Arizona is home to a...
Wyatt & Witches & Pixies, Oh My!
Wyatt Earp was a fairy. Don’t aim your pistols at me. I’m not outing anybody. Neither is Emma Bull. Okay, Wyatt’s not really a fairy. A fairy, in...
The Taming of the Artist
The rise of Charlie Russell, and the wife who made him a star. This triumphant moment had all begun with a marital spat, Nancy liked to say. Charlie...
Sioux on the Beach
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody had been planning his next feat as a showman when, in 1882, he was asked to stage an “Old Glory Blowout” in North...
House of the Butterfly
Several years ago, Kat Vinson contemplated purchasing five villas and operating them as a bed and breakfast in Camp Verde, Arizona. Before making...
Preservation: Petroglyphs in Peril
Petroglyphs in Peril First off, Nine Mile Canyon in eastern Utah is misnamed. It’s actually about 40 miles long. But it’s accurate to say that the...
The Frontiersman’s Mexican Loop Holster
"Before leaving the train, I had prudently strapped to my waist a new (how distressingly new) Colt’s six-shooter, that looked and felt a yard long...
Signature Spurs
Pascal M. Kelly, born in 1886, turned out his first pair of spurs as early as 1903, in the Texas Panhandle town Childress. In 2008, one of his pairs...
How to Get Rich Buying Books
Back in 1986, while participating in an “archaeological dig” at the site of the McSween house in Lincoln, New Mexico, I first met Bob McCubbin. To...
Witness to History
The “massacre” at Wounded Knee is still contentious today. Some historians consider it a battle in which a peaceful surrender of weapons went...
Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bank
The American West has its myths, but it is also steeped with genuine characters and events which we can identify with, even more than 200 years...