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A Pioneer Paradise

A Pioneer Paradise

by | Sep 23, 2016 | Departments, True Western Towns

When pioneers settled on Kanab Creek in the late 1850s, they faced hostile Navajo, Paiute and Hopi Indians. Several attempts at settlement ended in bloodshed before Mormon missionary and frontiersman Jacob Hamblin brokered peace with the tribes. Some believe the...
Riding with the Master

Riding with the Master

by | Sep 5, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

“The soldier, the cowboy and the rancher, the Indian, the horses and the cattle of the plains will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily believe, for all time.” President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1907 analysis of artist Frederic Remington’s legacy has been...
Behan’s Lies

Behan’s Lies

by | Aug 24, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

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....
Wyatt Earp Myth Busters

Wyatt Earp Myth Busters

by | Aug 10, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

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...