Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding...
Saving the Wrong Guys
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Saving the Wrong Guys
Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding...
The Lunacy of Billy the Kid
Two New Mexico lawmen receive death threats after digging up a body in Arizona. One of them later finds his daughter's horse so terribly...
The Lunacy of Billy the Kid
Two New Mexico lawmen receive death threats after digging up a body in Arizona. One of them later finds his daughter's horse so terribly...
What Would Billy Say?
With the convoluted and contested efforts during the past decade to dig up Billy the Kid, we wondered what a Billy the Kid expert might ask the...
Fighting for Geronimo’s Remains
“It is my land, my home, my fathers’ land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those...
The Divorce Seekers
After gambling away my earnings from wrangling horses at the notorious Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming, I shipped my footlocker and saddle freight...
Things We Get Wrong About David Crockett
David Crockett (1786-1836), has a tremendous responsibility. He fills niches in American History, folklore and popular culture. Details of his life...
The Legendary Life & Tragic Death of Sonny Jim
About 1,000 people came to praise the old Indian cowboy, not bury him. They came from far and wide, from California to Oklahoma to Oregon and more,...
Hawaii’s Cowboy Tradition
The steam from the volcano diffused the dawn as the cattle drive reached the shoreline where the Pacific Ocean rolled into Kawaihae Bay. While some...
Who Is Boley Brown?
Heading east on Highway 380 from Post, Texas, to the ghost town of Clairemont is a 45-minute drive through a wide open and sparsely populated...
A Lot of Work for Two Cents
Early in June 1880, census enumerator Charles M. Cantrell came to dwelling number 14 on his list in Davidson County, Tennessee. Cantrell wrote down...