by Paul Andrew Hutton | Jul 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Geronimo. It is a warrior name for the ages—standing comfortably alongside the likes of Achilles, Leonidas, Genghis Khan, Patton and Rommel in its power—a storied name invoking cunning, courage, tenacity and uncompromising ferocity. On the territories of New Mexico...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jun 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
It just didn’t seem right that a tombstone was propped up in front of an antique store in Mayer, Arizona. That’s what a casual shopper felt, getting more uneasy when she saw that it was engraved with the 1857 birth and 1909 death of one M.J. Brady. Most people would...
by Candy Moulton | May 24, 2011 | Travel & Preservation
I have a hankering to put some more miles on my car, so I fill my gas tank and head west to visit some of the forts established in the Intermountain West and Northern Plains during the 19th century. I could follow the dirt roads from my house in Encampment, Wyoming,...
by Josh Becker | Apr 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
“In the name of the eternal fitness of things, has not this cowboy-Indian obsession gone far enough?” reported Moving Picture World in December 1911. The real problem wasn’t too many Westerns, but that the ones made between 1903, when The Great Train Robbery came out,...
by Phil Spangenberger | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
“Why, by God girl, that’s a Colt’s Dragoon,” uttered by none other than John Wayne in 1969’s True Grit. These words, uttered by none other than John Wayne, in his Oscar-winning performance as Marshal Rooster Cogburn in 1969’s True Grit, brought star status to...