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A Pistoleer Poet?

A Pistoleer Poet?

by | Aug 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

James Butler Hickok proved on numerous occasions that he was neither gun nor camera shy, and his attraction to the opposite sex is also well known. But few would have imagined that he might also have been a . . . poet? This possibility came to light in September 1985,...
A Deadly Game

A Deadly Game

by | Aug 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

WARNING: This excerpt from the recently released Wild Bill Hickok: Deadwood City—End of Trail uses a fictional treatment of the facts derived from the testimony of Carl Mann at the Yankton trial of Jack McCall, and Harry Young’s 1915 Hard Knocks—Life Story of the...
Cowboy Coffee

Cowboy Coffee

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

“Tea must be universally renounced . . . and the sooner the better,” wrote John Adams, enroute to the first Continental Congress in 1774. Patriotic Americans agreed and embraced coffee as their favorite drink. To the American colonists, tea was a detested symbol of...
Caught in the Crossfire

Caught in the Crossfire

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

One hundred years ago, Willie Nickell, the 14-year-old son of a contentious homesteader who had brought sheep into cattle country, was murdered on July 18 near the family homestead in the Iron Mountain region northwest of Cheyenne. After a six-month investigation,...
Head’em Up, Move’em Out!

Head’em Up, Move’em Out!

by | Jul 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

The Santa Fe Railroad, in 1873, ceased construction of its main transcontinental line at Dodge City, Kansas, for three years due to a national financial crisis. As a result, Dodge City, the only available shipping point for southern cattle, became the largest cattle...