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Pursuing Outlaw Sam Bass

Pursuing Outlaw Sam Bass

by | Aug 17, 2018 | Departments, Renegade Roads

There wasn’t much to Big Springs, Nebraska, in 1877. As Al Sorenson noted in his 1877 book, Hands Up! The History of a Crime, Big Springs was “a small and isolated station, consisting only of the depot, the agent’s house, the water tank, and the section house—361...
Gateways to the Old West

Gateways to the Old West

by | Aug 15, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Get your mule, load the wagon and let’s take a look at the best museums of the West. St. Louis, known as the Gateway to the West, takes our top museum spot this year with the long-awaited reopening of Gateway Arch National Park (formerly Jefferson National Expansion...
History in Ink

History in Ink

by | Aug 7, 2018 | Collecting the West, Departments

What a difference an autograph makes. Last September, a collector successfully bid $6,500 at Cowan’s Auctions for a photograph from the Eric C. Caren Collection showing the starring actors, “Wild Bill” Hickok, “Texas Jack” Omohundro and “Buffalo Bill” Cody, of Scouts...
The Youngers of Missouri: First Blood

The Youngers of Missouri: First Blood

by | Aug 1, 2018 | True West Blog

The Younger brothers present a classic example of how the war destroyed families. If any family could be called “Rebels with a Cause,” it would be them. They were solid American frontier stock. Like many other Missourians, their roots were in Virginia....
One Proud Hostile

One Proud Hostile

by | Jul 30, 2018 | Features & Gunfights

Wes Studi, fresh from the success of Hostiles, appeared on the 2018 Oscars to present a movie montage highlighting military service, the 70 year old mentioned that he’d volunteered for Vietnam, and asked if anyone else had. He was met with silence. “I wasn’t...