Behan’s Lies
One humiliation followed another for popular sheriff Johnny Behan on that fateful October afternoon. He stepped into the middle of a tense situation to prevent a gunfight, only to see the bullets fly around him and three of his friendly constituents shot to death....
Western Events for September 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Locals First: Western Art of Jim Bagley & Jenny Gummersall Durango, CO, September 1-30: See contemporary Western paintings by Jim Bagley and Americana-style photography by Jenny Gummersall....
Wyatt Earp Myth Busters
Did Wyatt Arrest Ben Thompson? This alleged arrest has driven researchers batty for decades. The most famous account appears in Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. Today, Ben Thompson’s name is remembered only by a handful of Old West history buffs, but in...
A Barn Worth Saving
“So, you’re the people who save things.” Bob McDaniel was looking for exactly those kind of people because this lifelong resident of Santa Ysabel, California, was on a mission to save a barn. Not just any barn, but the Dutch-style redwood Hoover Barn that...
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