by | Sep 6, 2022 | Ask the Marshall
I’ve read the transcript of Wyatt Earp’s testimony at the inquest following the gunfight at (near) the O.K. Corral, and it seems he drew his gun from a coat pocket when the shooting started. Why would a professional lawman do that? Mike Burke (Wilmington,...
by Chris Enss and Howard Kanzanijan with Chris Kortlander | Sep 4, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
After the Battle of Little Bighorn, the seven officers’ wives had an immortal bond. On July 29, 1876, Elizabeth Custer requested an audience with the widows and children of the enlisted men lost at the Battle of Little Bighorn. She struggled to maintain her...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 2, 2022 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, plus a novel of the Mexican War, a history of slavery on the border, a classic Western and a history of Indian wars. Mark Lee Gardner’s The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 2, 2022 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A great novel about the legendary Geronimo, a new history of U.S.-Mexico’s La Frontiera, two classic Western novels and a new history of Silver State shootists. Rarely do you come across an author as adept at writing both Western history and novels as W. Michael...
by Bill Markley | Sep 1, 2022 | Features & Gunfights
The West was immense, and frontier law enforcement sparse. Wise individuals carried firearms and knew how to use them. Some men and women became notorious for their real or perceived gun-handling abilities: Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson and Calamity Jane, to name a...