by Henry Cabot Beck | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
The dictionary defines a “feud” as a “long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans.” This includes vendettas, blood feuds, private wars and, if you ask me, street rumbles, gas station price wars and long-standing...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
We salute those who think outside that glass display case. Remember back in those golden days when your folks would force you inside that same old mothball-smelling museum every summer vacation? Really, how many times can you see that Colt .45 that once belonged to...
by | Jul 10, 2012 | Inside History
Why did the three “Outlaw Cowboys” from your May 2012 issue tuck one pant leg into their boots? David JasonBaker City, Oregon No one knows why these particular fellows chose to pose in this way, but if you ask a cowboy, he’ll probably tell you the tucking was a...
by Sherry Monahan | Jun 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
“It was pretty tough in those times,” Mrs. Bell Mattison recalled about her years in Fillmore County, Nebraska, after she moved there with her family in 1868. “My mother had died, and my father had re-married. We had an awful hard time. We had corn meal one year, corn...
by C. Courtney Joyner | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Called one of the last American frontiers, Marfa got its start as an 1883 water stop for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. This semiarid region features dry steambeds and a mountain terrain made up of the Davis, Chisos and Chinati ranges. Its...