William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a lucky man. From a hardscrabble youth that began in a log cabin in Iowa Territory, he g…
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When C.S. Fly Shot Geronimo Making memories at the Cañon de los Embudos surrender site.
In the middle of March 1886, Camillus Sydney Fly, perhaps Arizona’s best-known frontier photographer, loaded his camera,…
Trapped! 31 Mexican Vaqueros VS Geronimo
Patricio Valenzuela, the hacendado (ranch owner) of the Agua Fria hacienda eight miles east of Cucurpe in Sonora, Mexico…
The Legendary West 10 Destinations You Must Visit in a Lifetime
The West conjures images: sky-touching-earth horizons, uncharted wilderness, turbulent rivers, an unbounded Milky Way fl…
Never Wasted a Bullet Yanosha was one of Geronimo’s bravest Chiricahua Apache Warriors.
He was known as one of the bravest of Geronimo’s warriors, a sharpshooter who never wasted a bullet. He also helped othe…
Breaking Broncs with the Bow-Gun Boys A famous pioneer photographer recounts the last busting at a historic Montana cow camp.
Around 1885, George “Dick” Ingersoll helped drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Montana Territory and settled in the…
Adelnietze’s Hit and Run Race with Death A decade after the surrender at Los Embudos.
Adelnietze’s proud bearing is so obvious in C.S. Fly’s photos—the white paint carefully drawn over his nose and face, as…
Slim Pickens A real cowboy who captured the hearts of America.
Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog…and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing …
Last of the Fast Guns The Pinkertons’ incredible chase of an outlaw popularly known as the Derby Kid.
Few would argue that names made a difference in the Old West. The easy-on-the-tongue alliteration of “Jesse James,” the …
The Secret Artillery Denied a role at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, this Gatling gun crew gives Custerphiles another view of the ill-fated fight.
On May 17, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry marched from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Ter…