by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 31, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
The long American road trip across the West evokes emotions of freedom and adventure and mental images of windswept plains, awe-inspiring mountain ranges and endless, impenetrable deserts. The vast Western lands awaken our basic instincts of thrill-seeking and...
by Michael Blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
He was known as a man of action, speaking softly but carrying a big stick. He led a group of volunteers called the Rough Riders to victory and fame up Cuba’s San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. As President, he preserved over 230 million acres of land for the...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 14, 2012 | Art, Guns and Culture
From the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, to the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, Texas, to stages at festivals like the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Western troubadours, Bluegrass pickers, Honky-Tonk singers and...
by James B. Mills | Jul 1, 2025 | Features & Gunfights
Before the Myth was penned, The Kid had already become a Legend in Theaters, tabloids and the American Imagination There is no question that Walter Noble Burns’s The Saga of Billy the Kid broadened William Bonney’s prominence and deepened interest in...
by Bob Boze Bell | Jul 1, 2025 | To the Point
A fitting wake for Billy the Kid Buckeye Blake Bounces Back He was angry and depressed when the town council in Fort Sumner turned him down for his proposed crypt lid for Billy the Kid’s grave. Thanks to new blood in an old town, his historic sculpture on The Wake of...