by Johnny D. Boggs | Oct 29, 2023 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation
Tracking the legend across Arizona and New Mexico is still an adventure. It’s easy to start a travel story when you know where your subject was born. Mark Twain? Florida, Missouri. Billy the Kid …? “Billy the Kid was reportedly born all over the world,” says Melody...
by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 29, 2023 | Classic Gunfights, Features & Gunfights
Maps & Graphics by Gus Walker Based on the research of John Langellier, Jack McPhee, Larry Ball, Chip Carlson, Grace McClure, Diana Allen Kouris and Linda Wommac Tom Horn vs Isam Dart: A Cold Killing It’s cold, just after dawn in Colorado’s Brown’s* Park area when...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 29, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A culinary biography of Buffalo Bill, plus a new bio of Newton Earp, a range-war Western, a classic rediscovered and a dramatic debut Old West novel. True West’s Collecting the West columnist and William F. Cody historian Steve Friesen has just released...
by Sherry Monahan | Oct 29, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Frontier Fare
From beef steak to bear sign donuts, the state is well-known for its bunkhouse fare. Wyoming is known as the Cowboy State, and cattle ranches dotted its landscape. Where there were cows, there were cowboys. They had their own language and culture, and their influence...
by Mike Coppock | Sep 22, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
How the Osage murders in Oklahoma in the 1920s led to the rise of the FBI At three in the morning an explosion rocked the small Oklahoma town of Fairfax in Osage County. Five gallons of nitroglycerin had been used to blow up the Smith home, killing Osage tribal member...