by Henry C. Parke | Aug 26, 2020 | Western Books & Movies
In 1956, Fred Gipson stunned readers when his new novel began, “He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. That’s how much I’d come to think of the big yeller dog.” Still...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 25, 2020 | Features & Gunfights
The time: November 1918 to January 1919 during the Spanish influenza pandemic. The place: Great Falls, Montana. The artist: Charles M. Russell. The cost: An estimated 675,000 American lives and at least 50 million across the world. Today, COVID-19 has put the American...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 25, 2020 | Inside History
The time: November 1918 to January 1919 during the Spanish influenza pandemic. The place: Great Falls, Montana. The artist: Charles M. Russell. The cost: An estimated 675,000 American lives and at least 50 million across the world. Today, COVID-19 has put the American...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Aug 25, 2020 | Departments
The American West and American rail-roads are filled with myths and legends. Some of them have been debunked, or at least questioned—like William F. Cody’s reputed buffalo-hunting contest against William Comstock near present-day Oakley, Kansas. Others are generally...
by Jana Bommersbach | Aug 25, 2020 | Departments
An ox shoe. A square nail. A kitchen knife. An 1840s dime. A grave. Those are some of the precious things found by members of Trails West as they explore, find, mark and teach about the old pioneer trails that brought 400,000 people through the West in the “great...