by James B. Mills | Jul 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
Before the Myth was penned, The Kid had already become a Legend in Theaters, tabloids and the American Imagination There is no question that Walter Noble Burns’s The Saga of Billy the Kid broadened William Bonney’s prominence and deepened interest in...
by Bob Boze Bell | Jul 1, 2025 | To the Point
A fitting wake for Billy the Kid Buckeye Blake Bounces Back He was angry and depressed when the town council in Fort Sumner turned him down for his proposed crypt lid for Billy the Kid’s grave. Thanks to new blood in an old town, his historic sculpture on The Wake of...
by Marshall Trimble | May 1, 2025 | Ask the Marshall
Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall Lessons I have learned during more than a quarter century of “Ask the Marshall.” What kind of poker was Wild Bill Hickok playing at the time he was shot? James Summerlin Lawrenceville, GA Nobody seems to know what particular poker...
by TW Editors | May 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
Opulence and Outlaws Historic Hotels of the American West Step across the threshold of time into grand lobbies, across creaking floorboards and down shadowed corridors where legends once walked. From opulent frontier parlors to rugged retreats, these historic hotels...
by TW Editors | May 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
The Wild Frontier Trail: A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History There’s a wildness to Wyoming that never quite disappeared. The ghosts of outlaws, lawmen and restless cowboys still linger in the wind sweeping across the open plains. This is a land where Butch...