She had to be shocked from the top of her flowered hat to the hem of her velvet dress. This can’t be happening, she must have thought, not after all...
An Outcast in Her Own Town
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Features & Gunfights
The Strangest Adoption in the History of the West
No more unusual story has emerged from Texas’s long and bitter struggle for independence than that of John Christopher Columbus Hill. The account of...
Classic Gunfights: Die Hard
“The Sheriff is on the Warpath” November 1, 1867 Sheriff Harry Morse “is on the warpath....” Or so declares the Oakland Daily News. The sheriff of...
Riding with the Master
"The soldier, the cowboy and the rancher, the Indian, the horses and the cattle of the plains will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily...
The Reel Walk Downs
The walk down to the lot behind the O.K. Corral has become a ritual in Tombstone productions—re-created, imitated and parodied in perhaps two dozen...
Behan’s Lies
One humiliation followed another for popular sheriff Johnny Behan on that fateful October afternoon. He stepped into the middle of a tense situation...
New Doc Photo Discovery?
Look closely at the street scene from Silver City, New Mexico. Notice the skinny cat standing by the third stagecoach window, right hand in pocket,...
Getting to Know Doc and Wyatt
Allen Barra: You have now written two superb, hefty novels involving Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. When did the idea first come to you to write...
Top 6 Art Museums of the West 2016
Western art remains hot. Just look no further than the success of art shows such as the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix...
Wyatt Earp Myth Busters
Did Wyatt Arrest Ben Thompson? This alleged arrest has driven researchers batty for decades. The most famous account appears in Stuart Lake’s Wyatt...
Go West!
Museums across the West continue to embrace Old West stories with exhibits on John C. Fremont, Liver Eatin’ Johnston, cattle trails and the Buffalo...
Mickey Free
We have brooded and argued and mulled over this fictional tale of Mickey Free for years now—sort of a personal Heart of Darkness. Our goal was a...