Dead Wrong About Cattle Kate
They said Cattle Kate was a dirty rustler and a filthy whore. They cried out, “rangeland justice,” when she became the only woman ever lynched in the nation as a cattle rustler. They called her killing “justified” when six prominent cattlemen strung her up with her...
Kansas Cattle Towns, Then and Now
The only market that Texans can rely on at present for their stock is Bakster [sic] Springs, Kansas …” a Texas drover wrote from present-day Oklahoma back in 1867. Bakster? Yeah, even back in 1867, Baxter Springs didn’t get much respect as a cattle town. “The First...
On the Trail with Gus and Call
When Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove was published in 1985, virtually every review included the term “epic.” “Deeply affecting” was a close second in the flow of praise for what one critic called “the Great Cowboy Novel.” Its critical success was capped with the...
Call of the Canyon
In 1906, novelist Zane Grey visited the Arizona Territory for the first time. The Southwestern landscape fired his imagination; after a few return trips, he began writing Riders of the Purple Sage, published by Harper and Brothers in 1912. It racked up blockbuster...
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