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Burning Through Texas

Burning Through Texas

by | Oct 28, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

To burn through Texas to the Gulf of Mexico was a vision that came to Chief Buffalo Hump that captured the imagination of his people. During the Republic of Texas’s decade-long reign as an independent sovereignty in North America, the Comanche became the only American...
Less than Magnificent

Less than Magnificent

by | Oct 28, 2016 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies

Remaking a classic movie is daring, and Director Antoine Fuqua made the challenge a double dare by remaking two: 1960’s The Magnificent Seven and the Japanese classic that movie is based on, 1954’s Seven Samurai. For the remake, Fuqua reunited with actors from 2001’s...
The Mormon Handcart Migration

The Mormon Handcart Migration

by | Oct 14, 2016 | Departments, Renegade Roads

When the Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, abandoned Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846, they made a pledge to gather all members to their new Zion. The journey took them to the Missouri River that first year, and on to Great Salt Lake City,...
The Deadliest Enemy

The Deadliest Enemy

by | Oct 3, 2016 | Departments, Features & Gunfights

To the uninitiated in the Old West, the ranching business centered on cattle, but in reality, the livestock trade focused on grass and water, so much so that droughts always threatened the success of the Cattle Kingdom. Without regular rainfall, grass withered away,...
A Pioneer Paradise

A Pioneer Paradise

by | Sep 23, 2016 | Departments, True Western Towns

When pioneers settled on Kanab Creek in the late 1850s, they faced hostile Navajo, Paiute and Hopi Indians. Several attempts at settlement ended in bloodshed before Mormon missionary and frontiersman Jacob Hamblin brokered peace with the tribes. Some believe the...