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Features & Gunfights
The Six-Million-Dollar Gun
The real story behind Pat Garrett’s infamous pistol that killed Billy the Kid In the fall of 1880, Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett was given his marching...
A Fitting Funeral for Billy the Kid
What Really Happened to El Chivato? Billy arrived at the home of Celsa and Saval Gutiérrez, where he sometimes had a siesta, instead of the Maxwell...
Spirit of the West
The founding curator filled the blank canvas of Scottsdale’s Museum of the West. Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West is making...
Western Art Museums of the Year
Discover the best of the West at these Western showplaces of American artists. 2021-2022 was another time period many people would like to forget,...
Saving the West – Top Western Museums 2022
Our top Western Museums for 2022 reflect the dedication of communities to their heritage. The icons of the West, like the Duke and the American...
Clash of the Mad Madams
Alice Abbott vs. Etta Clark The War Over Beautiful, Busty Bessie Colvin April 18, 1886 The beautiful Bessie Colvin is fed up. After a year of...
A Bright Particular Star
Ella La Rue and the Performing Variety of Women of the Old West Historian Jill Lepore recently observed that microhistories of unknown people...
The Real Women of the Wild West
A portfolio of bold American women who changed the world. Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study democracy. At the end of his two-volume...
Slinging Lead, Hot Type and the Truth
History tried to erase the courageous Arizona journalist, but her remarkable life and work as a publisher is a testament to her courage and her...
Paths of Glory and Days of Darkness
After the Battle of Little Bighorn, the seven officers' wives had an immortal bond. On July 29, 1876, Elizabeth Custer requested an audience with...
Frederick Nolan
Frederick Nolan March 7, 1931 - June 15, 2022 An English historian redefined the scholarship on Billy the Kid. The one thing that...