by Robert K. DeArment | Jan 1, 2003 | Features & Gunfights
Enforcing the law in the early West was a vocation for stout, fearless men. And yet there were at least three who extended the long arm of the law to apprehend malefactors, even after they had only one arm to extend. Virgil Earp was the most famous of the three...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jan 1, 2003 | Features & Gunfights
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one until man walked on the moon 165 years later. It’s impossible to talk about Lewis and Clark without using superlatives:...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jan 1, 2003 | Art, Guns and Culture
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one until man walked on the moon 165 years later. It’s impossible to talk about Lewis and Clark without using superlatives:...
by Daniel Buck and Anne Meadows | Nov 1, 2002 | Western Movies
The Hole-in-the-Wall filmography includes the original, the prequels, the sequels and the non sequiturs. •Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): A comic Western in a 1960s-mellow, New York wiseacre style. Although the film premiered as the curtain was dropping on...
by Candy Moulton | Nov 1, 2002 | Travel & Preservation
Hopeful faces turned westward more than 150 years ago as the greatest pioneer movement in history began along the Oregon Trail. Although the people who followed the trail started from many points along the Missouri River, historians place the true beginning of the...