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The Battle of Big Dry Wash

The Battle of Big Dry Wash

by | Aug 2, 2007 | Inside History

July 17 1882 Apache leader Na-ti-o-tish positions his warriors along a narrow gorge eight miles north of the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona. They have built rifle pits and stacked  rock wings adjacent to large pine trees, awaiting a small troop of soldiers (55...
Fort Stanton’s Angel

Fort Stanton’s Angel

by | Aug 1, 2007 | True Westerners

The “Savior of Fort Stanton” is too modest to claim that title for herself, but anyone who has watched the reversal of fortune at one of the West’s most enduring forts knows that Lynda Sanchez deserves it. Two years ago, a 600-unit subdivision threatened the fort that...
Fort Stanton’s Angel

Fort Stanton’s Angel

by | Aug 1, 2007 | True Westerners

The “Savior of Fort Stanton” is too modest to claim that title for herself, but anyone who has watched the reversal of fortune at one of the West’s most enduring forts knows that Lynda Sanchez deserves it. Two years ago, a 600-unit subdivision threatened the fort that...
Civil War in the West

Civil War in the West

by | Jul 2, 2007 | Travel & Preservation

The Civil War was gonna be won in the West, Sherman told Grant after the second bloody day at Shiloh. Okay, so that was John Wayne’s William T. Sherman telling Harry Morgan’s Ulysses S. Grant in 1962’s How the West Was Won. And while Shiloh National Military Park in...
Cowboy Mounted Shooting

Cowboy Mounted Shooting

by | Jul 2, 2007 | Features & Gunfights

The thunderous sound of pounding hooves and the staccato bursts of gunfire breaks the silence of the still air as the lone horseman smoothly guides his mount through the maze of carefully positioned opponents. With his revolver now empty, this centaur of the open...