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Rendezvous

Rendezvous

by | Feb 1, 2003 | Features & Gunfights

Before the Oregon Trail, before the cattle drives, before Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp, fur trappers—mountain men—opened the West. In their heyday they numbered but a few hundred, yet these intrepid frontiersmen penetrated a land known only to the Indians and...
Arizona’s Cowboy and Indian Trail

Arizona’s Cowboy and Indian Trail

by | Jan 1, 2003 | Travel & Preservation

If you had journeyed through Southern Arizona back in the 1880s, you wouldn’t have found the place nearly as hospitable as it is today. Restless Apaches, armed incursions from Mexico, the rough landscape and summer temperatures that exceeded 115 degrees made life...
Back at the Ranch

Back at the Ranch

by | Nov 1, 2002 | Features & Gunfights

Buenos Aires, 1901 When Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Ethel Place arrived in Buenos Aires in late March 1901, they undoubtedly hoped to put their past behind them. But they hadn’t counted on the tenacity of the Pinkertons. The outlaw’s past would continue to...
Texas Rangers

Texas Rangers

by | Jul 1, 2002 | Features & Gunfights

Depending on who you believe, the Rangers in Texas began their existence in either 1823, only two years after Anglo-American colonists first settled there, or 1835 when the legislature created a body of fighting men known as the Texas Rangers. Their job was to protect...