Ethel “Etta” Place and The Sundance Kid’s outlaw love affair.
Queen of the Wild Bunch
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Features & Gunfights
A Legend is Born
How a Pennsylvania kid went west, became The Sundance Kid and joined Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch.
The End of The Line
Two “Americanos” vs a Uyuni Posse.
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch
How two films from the summer of ’69 changed westerns forever.
Custer, Crows, and Curtis
No American battle (except perhaps Gettysburg) has been the subject of so many books and movies as the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana...
Get Western!
I remember seeing my Wyoming-raised father quietly touching his hand to the brim of his cowboy hat, or tipping it in a polite gesture when meeting a...
The Deadly Escape
Godfrey Gauss and Sam Wortley live behind the Lincoln Courthouse. Gauss lights his pipe and leaves his room, crossing the yard toward the main...
Billy the Tintype
“He is, in all, quite a handsome looking fellow.” That was the opinion of a newspaperman fortunate enough to obtain an interview with the notorious...
The Most Dangerous Street in America
The Lincoln County War was exceptionally violent, and much of that violence occurred in the small town of Lincoln, New Mexico. But murder and mayhem...
Edgar Rice Burroughs Hunted the Apache Kid
Dateline: Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, Saturday, May 23, 1896. Edgar Rice Burroughs, age 20, arrived here today to begin a harrowing ten-month...
Get Your Kicks!
In 1927, the first Route 66 signs were posted from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and the legend of the “Mother Road” began. The...
Canyon Springs Ambush
September 26, 1878 The Monitor stage rolls out of Deadwood at seven in the morning. On the box is “Big Gene” Barnett handling the ribbons and next...