by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 17, 2024 | Features & Gunfights
How do you get hooked on history at a young age—or at any age, for that matter? I’d say one of the best ways is to get out of the library and classroom and walk where history happened. For me it started in Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona. My earliest memories of...
by Henry C. Parke | Oct 17, 2024 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen Fifty years after its first release, the film’s recent version is considered the best. Half a century after its theatrical release, with the new Criterion version, Sam Peckinpah’s final Western, Pat Garrett...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 17, 2024 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
In the annals of North American history, the fabled lore of the horse and the mountain man are two of the most chronicled and beloved. From Columbus’s introduction of the horse to the New World in 1494 to the empirical battle to control North America through the fur...
by Walt Coburn | Oct 17, 2024 | Classic True West, Features & Gunfights
JOHN MULLINS KILLED IN AUTO MISHAP John Mullins, 40, formerly of Bozeman, Montana, died here today from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile at Wadsworth, 30 miles from Reno, last night. Mullins, who had resided at Wadsworth for the last two years,...
by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 17, 2024 | Classic Gunfights, Features & Gunfights
Willie B. Rude vs. Apache Raiders Against overwhelming odds Rude reloads with deadly efficiency. Map by Tom Jonas. Based on the research of Greg Scott. July 14, 1861 An American ranchero named Billy Rude, along with a Mexican vaquero named Felix, are riding...