The most celebrated duel in recent Western films wasn’t fought with guns or bowie knives, but words: in 1993’s Tombstone…
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Studio Props? Geronimo-Chatto photos spark controversy.
Our February issue sharing how history should view Chatto, in John Sandifer’s “Apache Traitor or Hero?” article, has spa…
A Belle of Old Fort Sumner An unpublished manuscript by Walter Noble Burns offers revelations to the biographer’s groundbreaking account of outlaw Billy the Kid’s life.
Walter Noble Burns was onto something. A 56-year-old Chicago journalist, Burns had become intrigued by a long-dead and l…
The Cup Spinning Sequence A behind-the-scenes look at the famous “Doc” Holliday scene from 1993’s Tombstone.
When then-Director Kevin Jarre first spoke to Val Kilmer about the gun-twirling, cup-spinning scene in 1993’s Tombstone,…
Road Trip! Hit the highway and experience where history happened in the Old West.
The long American road trip across the West evokes emotions of freedom and adventure and mental images of windswept plai…
Suckers on the Strip Louis Mueller was among those who took a chance for land 125 years ago—and got busted.
Louis Mueller always said both Sooners and Suckers participated in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Run, and my impression w…
Hell’s Comin’ With Me! A blow-by-blow account of what really went down.
March 20, 1882 With the recent killing of Morgan Earp by assassins, Wyatt Earp spends his 34th birthday attending to the…
Owen Wister’s Wyoming Hit the road across the Cowboy State in search of Wister, Trampas, and The Virginian.
Owen Wister’s The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains, published in 1902, considered to be the first Western novel, is a…
10 Earp Vendetta Ride Myths
1) Thanks to Hollywood, most people think that the so-called “Vendetta Posse” was assembled after the death of Morgan Ea…
Cattle Call From the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, hit the trail and discover Texas’s rich cowboy history.
Since moving to Texas over 15 years ago, I have traveled many miles on the trail of the state’s history and the rich her…