Offspring of a Percheron stud and a Mexican hot-blood mare, the big black colt born on the Frank Foss ranch of Southeastern Wyoming may have lacked...
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Features & Gunfights
Deadwood’s Resident Boy Scout
Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal of Seth Bullock in HBO’s Deadwood could be described as resolute, a term that aptly fit the real Seth Bullock. Bullock...
Down Mexico Way
At 4:20 a.m. on March 9, 1916, the United States was invaded for the first time since the British sacked Washington during the War of 1812. The...
Utah’s Official Boogey Man
It was a good day for Porter Rockwell. On April 15, 1847, the first Mormon wagon train under the leadership of Brigham Young was about to depart...
Fur, Defeat and Pluck
Deserted by her husband, a determined teenage mother is left to raise her young son in France’s colonial outpost, New Orleans. Not an auspicious...
May They Rest in Peace
If not for a 27-second gunfight near Tombstone’s O.K. Corral, many of the Old West’s most colorful characters would be remembered as little more...
Is Wyatt Earp Overrated?
Frank Stilwell got himself shot full of holes, literally perforated from head to toe, outside the railroad depot in downtown Tucson, Arizona, in...
Rare Images of the Old West
Photography became available just in time to capture most of the Westward movement of our nation. Although too late for the Spanish Southwest and...
Pike’s Peak or Bust!
On the first day of summer in 1850, John Beck, a Cherokee preacher en route to California’s goldfields, stopped to do a little panning along the...
Judging the Peace
Mexican raiders swam across the Rio Grande, showing off their freshly-stolen beeves, taunting Capt. Leander McNelly and his Special Force of Texas...
Legendary Rancher
Nobody was going to sneak up on ol’ Tap Duncan on the Diamond Bar Ranch, tucked away as it was in a remote corner of Arizona’s Mohave County....
Luck of the Draw
General Santa Anna ordered every single Texan prisoner executed—men, fighting for the Republic of Texas. A total of 214 of them had been captured in...