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The Last Hash Knife Cowboy

The Last Hash Knife Cowboy

by | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized

“I consider it a damn good outfit,” George W. Hennessey once said of the infamous Hash Knife Outfit at the Aztec Land & Cattle Company, at one time the largest cattle ranch in Arizona and a brand still going strong today at northern Arizona’s Babbitt...
Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains

Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains

by | Jun 2, 2009 | Western Books

In this book, the Rocky Mountains somehow includes Arizona. Jan MacKell’s observations of the Earp women and the “control of prostitution” for the O.K. Corral shoot-out will give Arizona historians pause. Avoiding the usual sources required for research, she relies on...
History in Ink

History in Ink

by | Aug 7, 2018 | Collecting the West, Departments

What a difference an autograph makes. Last September, a collector successfully bid $6,500 at Cowan’s Auctions for a photograph from the Eric C. Caren Collection showing the starring actors, “Wild Bill” Hickok, “Texas Jack” Omohundro and “Buffalo Bill” Cody, of Scouts...