by Stuart Rosebrook | May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
When the Spanish explored the West, they discovered numerous ruins clinging to cliff sides and mountain tops. Today, many of these ancient Puebloan communities have been lost to the vagaries of time, human depredation and looting. Yet, many of these architectural and...
by C. Courtney Joyner | May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the 1960s, James Warren and Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland was such a runaway success, covering old and new Horror movies, the demand for another magazine was immediate. Drugstore racks were heavy with monsters for kids, but Warren wanted an...
by Phil Spangenberger | May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
During the June 1874 battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle, where an estimated 700 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors attacked nearly 30 hide hunters, young hunter Billy Dixon made a remarkable 1,538-yard shot at a mounted Indian, from his borrowed Model...
by Mark Boardman | May 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Reportedly born around 1886, Rafael “Red” López was a bad man. He killed six men—including five law officers—in late 1913 near Bingham, Utah. Then he vanished from the Minnie Silver Mine, surrounded by a posse, seemingly into thin air. One story about Red claims he...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Apr 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
The American West, imagined and celebrated worldwide in art and literature, film and television, is equally a land of grace and grief. Since Columbus sailed the Atlantic, world history changed, not just in the Americas, but, around the globe, with the near immediate...