by Michael Blake | Sep 1, 2006 | Western Books
You probably remember the story of Lt. John Dunbar. During the Civil War, he goes crazy—and somehow rallies Union troops to a victory. Army commanders reward him by sending him to the post of his choice—one on the Western frontier that turns out to be abandoned. He...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Jul 1, 2006 | Travel & Preservation
He sat motionless, starin’ ahead, aware of everythin’ around him. In this country, patience meant survival. Too often, the first to move became the first to die. Crossin’ U.S. 550 can be a bitch. Seein’ a quick openin’, he gunned across the intersection and found his...
by Candy Moulton | Jul 1, 2006 | Features & Gunfights
In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the Cherokee Outlet, looking for rangeland where they could run cattle. Miller, originally from Kentucky, had already...
by Mark Boardman | Jul 1, 2006 | True Westerners
Teddy Roosevelt knew what he was talking about. To appreciate properly his fine, manly qualities, the wild rough-rider of the plains should be seen in his own home. There he passes his days, there he does his life-work, there, when he meets death, he faces it as he...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jul 1, 2006 | True Westerners
For 50 years, almost nobody remembered Evelyn Cameron or what she’d done in the territorial days of early Montana. Her name wasn’t in history books or halls of fame, and her contribution to Western history was stashed, literally, in the basement of a friend....