by Phil Spangenberger | Jun 11, 2024 | Art, Guns and Culture, Shooting from the Hip
After the Civil War, savvy frontiersmen chose the Spencer repeating carbine. At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company had sold more than 100,000 military arms to U.S. forces. Although the company enjoyed great success during the war,...
by Lynda A. Sanchez | Apr 17, 2024 | Features & Gunfights
General John “Black Jack” Pershing assigned the Apache scouts from the 10th and 11th cavalry the task of tracking Pancho Villa. (Enjuh! It is good, they acknowledged.) The taste of new adventure and the hunt for the elusive bandit and his soldiers stirred their...
by Larry Len Peterson | Apr 17, 2024 | Features & Gunfights
The New York Herald dubbed The North American Indian (TNAI) as the “most gigantic undertaking in the making of books since the King James edition of the Bible.” Curtis, the West’s greatest Indian photographer, had a profound effect on how Whites viewed the many Native...
by Phil Spangenberger | Apr 17, 2024 | Art, Guns and Culture, Shooting from the Hip
When we think of Confederate revolvers we generally envision six guns like Leech & Rigdon, Spiller & Burr or the revolvers of the Dance Brothers. Of course, almost any handgun of the period of the War Between the States certainly could qualify, since so many...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 21, 2024 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation
Gettin’ along little dogies up the Western Trail is still a fun road trip today. By the 1880s, time was catching up with the Western Trail—the cattle-drive highway from Texas to Kansas/Nebraska/Dakotas/Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. Just as time—and angry farmers and stock...