I read one time, but can’t remember in what book, about the good quality of “blue ice” that was available to Tombstone residents during its heyday....
In the history books we learn that gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill and that precipitated the famous Gold Rush of 1849. Someone told me that...
Why did so many Western-bound wagon trains use oxen instead or horses of mules? Joshua Young Star Valley, Arizona Oxen were slower than mules or...
I know glass window panes were scarce in the early West. So, what did the early pioneers use? Junior Wilkes Monahans, Texas Many settlers fit their...
Why do military men salute? Auston Clements Denver, Colorado Back in the days of chivalry, knights would greet each other with the lifting of the...
Can you please tell me what the phrase “I’m your huckleberry” means? Keith Wellington Kalkasa, Missouri According to the New Dictionary of...
Do you know the term “starve out,” and how widespread is its use? Nancy Coggeshall Reserve, New Mexico Ramon Adams in Western Words, calls it a...
I’m trying to locate a book called Early Spanish Treasure Signs and Symbols, by William Mahan, published in 1966. Sam Tunnell East Wenatchee,...
Why are sheriff’s badges almost always star-shaped? Jane McKenna Spokane, Washington Primitive societies believed the star possessed magical...
What is the origin of the stripe down the trouser leg of military uniforms? Also, in the 1880s, soldiers wore dress helmets that resembled those...
Cody, Carr, Collins and Townsend could hardly contain themselves. On a hot afternoon at Fort Laramie, Buffalo Bill was his customary dashing and...
Surprising new evidence has surfaced in the Wyatt Earp claim that he killed Curly Bill. Wells Fargo historian, Robert J. Chandler, accidentally...