How many of Bat Masterson’s Colt SAA revolvers are known to exist, and how many did he own over the years? I have read that he possibly owned seven...
Ask the Marshall – Bat Masterson: Armed and Dangerous
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Western Roundup: Feb/March 2021
DOG RACE International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race Lander, WY, February 3: Lander is one stop on this year’s sled dog race that showcases the...
The Thrifty Frontier Kitchen
Old West cooks were magicians in the kitchen when it came to making the most of leftovers. Frugal frontier cooks often turned their kitchen...
William Henry Jackson’s West
The great photographer influenced the Western preservation movement and the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. William Henry Jackson...
What History Has Taught Me: L. J. Martin
I thankfully grew up in Bakersfield, in the center of the Oklahoma and Texas of California, Kern County. One hundred miles physically from L.A., but...
Lincoln: Prepare Ye the Way for the Horde
The president paved the way for the great Westward Expansion. On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for the second...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. A Case of...
What History Has Taught Me: Johnny D. Boggs
My mother and father... Songwriter Rodney Crowell wrote my life story in “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream)”: “But Mama kept the...
January 2021 Western Roundup
HERITAGE FESTIVALS Montana Winter Fair Lewistown, MT, January 29-31: The Montana Winter Fair celebrates 76 years of promoting Montana...
Frontier Hygiene and Pancho Villa’s Missing Head
What was frontier life like in the 1880s? Rena Miller Titusville, Florida What you see in Westerns is a sanitized version of life in the 19th...
A Tall Tale of Two Bills
Did lawman Bill Tilghman really arrest outlaw Bill Doolin?
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of HISTORICAL truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs.