by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 24, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring Western tales. Who really was Black Bart? Prolific, award-winning Western historian John Boessenecker seeks to answer this...
by Kenyon Bennett | Feb 24, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
L.R. Millican’s life in Lampasas, Texas, was both lucky and legendary. Lampasas, for a time, was on the edge of a lively frontier in Texas, and much blood spilled as that border exhaled dust and stampeded westward. Rowdy cowboys, outlaws and others shooting up saloons...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 23, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends. The Goodnight-Loving Trail has inspired songwriters and novelists. Cattleman Charles Goodnight became one of the iconic figures of Texas and the West—and...
by Mark Boardman | Feb 23, 2023 | Inside History, Investigating History
Nate Champion became a martyr in the Johnson County War. For some residents of Johnson County, Wyoming, in the 1890s, Nate Champion had the perfect name. He was a champion of the rights of small ranchers in the area. But for others—the cattle barons—he was nothing but...
by Bob Boze Bell | Feb 23, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, To the Point
Here’s a classic film story that involves my hometown, Kingman, the Hotel Beale and my shirttail kin. As the story goes, Buster Keaton was traveling through Kingman in 1924-25 and he stayed at the Hotel Beale. When he went into the bar for a drink, he happened...