The Pella Historical Society starts at home. Certainly, Wyatt Earp didn’t play cowboys and Indians growing up in Pella, Iowa. We know because it...
Remember…Velasco?
The 1832 battle set the stage for the Texas Revolution. The names are spoken with reverence in Texas: The Alamo. Goliad. San Jacinto. The great...
Following Phil Coe’s Trail to Death
Have fun trailing the Lone Star outlaw from Texas to Kansas. Charles E. Rankin, retired editor of the University of Oklahoma Press and astute...
Pinedale, Wyoming
Pinedale, Wyoming The historic Green River Valley community is a great place to rendezvous like a mountain man. A visitor might wonder how...
Western Roundup: May 2021
21st Annual Living History Days Pinedale, WY, May 11-13: Each day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the American Mountain Men show the day-to-day life of the...
Fighting Earps, Rattlesnakes and the Birds and the Bees
Did any of the “Fighting Earps” have children? Warren Rutherford (Phoenix, Arizona) Nicholas Earp and his first wife, Abigail Storm, had two...
What History Has Taught Me: Janice Dunnahoo, Archivist
Janice Dunnahoo is the archivist for the Historical Foundation of Southeastern New Mexico. She is a sought-after public speaker on local...
The Man with No Nose
Doc Holliday vs Mike Gordon Hoodoo Brown’s court invents “excusable homicide” Gambler draws a “pair of sixes” and is “froze out.” By Bob Boze Bell...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Double-Take...
What History Has Taught Me – Jim Arndt
Jim Arndt - Photographer and Author Award-winning New Mexico-based photographer Jim Arndt has been sought after for Western-style ad and...
Western Roundup – April 2021
SCOTTSDALE ART AUCTION Scottsdale, AZ, April 10: Over 350 lots of the finest in Western, wildlife and sporting paintings and sculptures will...
Freedom, Independence and Madness
In many photos of Buffalo Bill, his hats are turned up on the right side. Do you know the reason why so many Old West characters did this? Allen...