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The Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror

by | 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...
Justice Served

Justice Served

by | Sep 22, 2023 | Features & Gunfights

Ten U.S. Marshals and Deputy U.S. Marshals who defined the legendary West All Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell and All Images Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted In this list, I’m providing 10 of U.S. Marshals Service personnel who defined the Old West as...
Journey to Lone Pine

Journey to Lone Pine

by | Sep 22, 2023 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies

The iconic Western film location is celebrated every year at the internationally famous Lone Pine Film Festival. Among the hundreds of long-running film festivals around the world, The Lone Pine Film Festival (lonepinefilmfestival.org), held in early October, is...
On the Western Trail

On the Western Trail

by | Sep 22, 2023 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation

Pack it up, round ’em up and drive north for an Old West adventure. Sherman, Texas, native S.H. Woods was 16 years old when he was “second boss—the horse rustler”—on a cattle drive in 1881. Although the drive had started along the Chisholm Trail in the Chickasaw...
Ringing the Bell

Ringing the Bell

by | Sep 21, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Old West Saviors

For the greater good of the state, two visionary women saved a school in Nome, North Dakota.       This is a story about two North Dakota women on a shopping spree—not for school clothes, but for a school.  “We’d already looked at other schools, but...