A Season of Destiny and Infamy
Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876, plus a revised biography of Sitting Bull, an ode to Billy, a classic Western and a new compendium on Spain’s conquest of Mexico. To my great delight this spring, I received an advance copy of “Legends of the Old West” podcast...
Kit Carson and the Conquest of California
The true story of how the trailblazer became the spearpoint of empire All Images Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted Kit Carson wanted to settle down. “Dick Owens and I concluded that, as we had rambled enough,” he later recalled, “it would be advisable...
Will This Bell Toll Again?
Tombstone’s first Episcopal Church says “Yes!” On January 21, 1882, a 24-year-old divinity student wrote in his diary, “So begins my journey West. God grant that I may do some good.…” The good Endicott Peabody did in the forlorn place he was sent—a rough and rowdy...
A Political Dispute
Billy Bailey lost more than the vote… Billy Bailey wandered into Newton, Kansas (photo) in 1871, probably at the end of a cattle drive. He had a reputation as a gunfighter, so Bailey was quickly hired as a special policeman, charged with overseeing the local election....
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