Rascals of Tombstone: Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne
After running away from the gunfight in the vacant lot near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ike Clanton made a desperate attempt to get the Earp’s and Doc Holliday charged with murder. His twisted, self-righteous testimony, laden with errors tripped him up at the Spicer...
Hawaiian Cowboys
What is the American West and where does it begin and end?” These questions have been debated consistently for well over a century, but after anyone reads David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden...
A Collector Like No Other
Of course, he’d become one of the frontier’s most ardent historians and collectors because history called early to Doug McChristian. He’d always been a reader because his grandmother was the county librarian and his mother was a teacher—besides, his dad read those...
My Darling Clementine
The other night the 1946 John Ford film My Darling Clementine popped up on one of the channels. I’ve always enjoyed the film, not for its historical accuracy because it isn’t, but for Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan and the spectacular Monument Valley setting. I...
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