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Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene

Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene

by | Mar 21, 2025 | Ask the Marshall

    What are your thoughts on Stuart Lake’s book Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, TX Much of Lake’s book comes from the fertile mind of Lake, but to his credit, it made a Western legend out of Wyatt. Lake also had to deal with Sadie Earp,...
Trails of the Old West

Trails of the Old West

by | Feb 21, 2025 | Features & Gunfights

DISCOVERING AMERICA’S HISTORIC FRONTIER TOWNS   From Arizona’s sunbaked deserts to Wyoming’s untamed wilderness, America’s historic frontier towns capture the enduring spirit of the Wild West. These storied destinations take travelers on a journey through time,...
The Frontier Characters of South Dakota

The Frontier Characters of South Dakota

by | Feb 21, 2025 | Renegade Roads

Calamity Jane, Wild Bill and George Custer roamed the Black Hills     On July 2, 1874, George Armstrong Custer led a surveying expedition of around 1,000 men, 110 wagons and hundreds of head of mules, horses and cattle from Fort Abraham Lincoln into the...
Frontier Colossus

Frontier Colossus

by | Feb 21, 2025 | Inside History, Investigating History

A look back at the legendary Texas cowboy who transformed the American Southwest   He almost single- handedly created the cattle industry, invented the chuck wagon, was an innovator for modern irrigation, helped save the buffalo from potential extinction, fought...