by Candy Moulton | May 2, 2005 | Features & Gunfights
Offspring of a Percheron stud and a Mexican hot-blood mare, the big black colt born on the Frank Foss ranch of Southeastern Wyoming may have lacked in looks, but he made up for it in stamina. He was three in 1899, when the Swan Land and Cattle Company bought the...
by Robert G. McCubbin | May 1, 2005 | True Westerners
Rose of Cimarron, mystery woman. Rose of Cimarron was first introduced to readers in 1915 in a little red paper-covered book titled Oklahoma Outlaws. The book was prepared by a newspaperman using information supplied by Bill Tilghman, a respected lawman in Oklahoma...
by Richard H. Dillon | May 1, 2005 | Features & Gunfights
At 4:20 a.m. on March 9, 1916, the United States was invaded for the first time since the British sacked Washington during the War of 1812. The invasion was caused by a grudge and a subsequent desire to avenge an imagined betrayal. The invader, Pancho Villa, was one...
by Corinne Brown | May 1, 2005 | Art, Guns and Culture
Forget all the clichés about singin’ cowboys—some are just too hard to label, especially when they turn out to be a mix of Southern charm and true grit like Royal Wade Kimes. If you’re not hip to Kimes, then check out one of the fastest rising stars in the Country...
by Lori van Pelt | Apr 1, 2005 | Travel & Preservation
“As far as I could see, covered wagons stood one beyond another in a long, long line. Behind them and over them, high over half the sky, a yellow wave of dust was curling and coming. My mother said to me, ‘That’s your last sight of Dakota.’” Rose Wilder Lane recorded...