Features & Gunfights Archives

Long Hair in the Old West

by Bob Boze Bell | Nov 1, 2006

This past June, I attended the Dalton Days Classic Gunfights event in Meade, Kansas, and met two re-enactors from Arkansas. They told me the head...

The “Dirt” on Spur Winners

by Candy Moulton | Nov 1, 2006

Why Oklahoma has agreed to do the novel of this aging academic, I do not know,” Willard Wyman wrote the editors and marketing department of the...

Help Us Save Old Cowtown and Old Trail Town!

by Bob Boze Bell | Nov 1, 2006

If the politicians have their way, two wonderful living history museums in the country could close very soon. As we go to press, I have received...

Dying Doc, Withered Wyatt?

by Mark Boardman | Oct 2, 2006

By 1887, Doc Holliday was in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, taking in the healing waters, trying to nurse his lungs that had been ravaged by...

Doc Holliday’s Racist Killing?

by Allen Barra | Oct 2, 2006

Scratch the reputation of a legendary killer of the Old West, and you’ll find a layer of myth. Scratch that layer, and you’ll likely find another...

The 125th Anniversary of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

by TW Editors | Oct 2, 2006

“Boys, you have got to give up your arms.” If the McLaurys and Clantons had heeded Sheriff Johnny Behan’s request, October 26, 1881, would have been...

Gunfighter in Gotham

by Mark Boardman | Oct 2, 2006

In the early 1900s, Bat Masterson left the wilds of the West for the bright lights of New York. But the Wild West spirit never really left him....

The International O.K. Corral

by Pamela J. Potter | Oct 2, 2006

The shots heard ’round the world ... the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.” Those shots still reverberate today in the world of politics, sports and gun...

The Billy Buff War

by Leo W. Banks | Jul 1, 2006

Billy the Kid’s legend has hovered over the landscape of the American West for 125 years, a Hindenburg of hype and fantasy, always there to nourish...