Cap Mossman: Boss of the Hashknife
Mossman’s life reads like something out of a Louis L’Amour western. The son of a Civil War hero, he was a descendant of the Scots-Irish, that adventurous, hell-for-leather breed who carved out a niche of history on the American frontier a century earlier....
Mexican Marvels
The cuisine of Mexican natives living in the frontier West did not appear on menus in most restaurants or hotels. Victorian pioneers considered it peasant food, and it took time for them to accept it. As early as 1867, some locales, mostly border states, had Mexican...
The Johnson County War: The Grandaddy of the Old West’s Range Wars
On April 9th, 1892 in Johnson County, Wyoming a column of hard-looking men rode up to within a short distance of the small ranch headquarters just south of the Middle Fork of the Powder River just before dawn. The icy snow blowing in from the north was blinding. They...
John Wesley Hardin: The Deadliest of ‘Em All
The greatest of all the storied Texas gunmen, John Wesley Hardin, has been called the “deadliest killer of ‘em all.” It’s claimed he gunned down twenty to forty men, “not counting Mexicans, Negroes and Indians.” Hardin was born in Bonham,...
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