by R.G. Robertson | Aug 1, 2002 | Western Books
You have to relish a writer who describes Benjamin Franklin as an 18th-century Groucho Marx. Lucia St. Clair Robson is not only one of America’s finest historical novelists, but she also has verve. Her first book, Ride the Wind (1982), a fictional account of the...
by Karen Holliday Tanner and Clifton Brewer | Nov 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights
Thirty seconds of withering gunfire raised John Henry “Doc” Holliday from frontier gambler to gunfighter immortal. Yet it was in a quiet little Colorado mountain community that the debilitated dentist demonstrated true grit. Forced to live a life half-dead, he...
by Chip Carlson | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights
One hundred years ago, Willie Nickell, the 14-year-old son of a contentious homesteader who had brought sheep into cattle country, was murdered on July 18 near the family homestead in the Iron Mountain region northwest of Cheyenne. After a six-month investigation,...
by Carol Mitchell | Feb 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights
Following the death of her husband, Wyatt Earp, in 1929, at the age of 63, Josephine Sarah Earp, who Wyatt called “Sadie,” spent a great portion of her life defending the old lawman’s reputation. For years, writers and film makers attempted to tell the famous Kansas...