Outfoxing a Rustler
Next to fluctuating markets and drought the biggest concern facing cattlemen then and now was rustling. It was tough to get a conviction, you practically had to catch a rustler in the act of altering a brand. Even then the thief might convince a jury of his peers it...
The Heart of Willcox
Rex Allen said his heart would always belong to his hometown of Willcox, Arizona, and he wasn’t kidding. A replica of a human heart was included in a larger-than-life statue of the “favorite son”—and when Allen died in 1999, his ashes were spread around the monument...
Julian Street in Cripple Creek
The heyday of Cripple Creek began around 1890 when a cowboy named Bob Womack found gold. For years he’d been telling anybody who’d listen the narrow cattle-crippling creek that ran through his pasture had a fortune in gold. Eventually he did find gold but things...
Crossfire
Three historians slice and dice what actually happened in one of the greatest manhunts in American history. We have decided to run all of the opposing evidence from Robert Utley, John Boessenecker and John Fusco, and let you, the reader, decide for yourself. We blew...
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