The Last Hash Knife Cowboy

The Last Hash Knife Cowboy

“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

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

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...