by Preston Lewis | 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,...
by Leo W. Banks | 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...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Sep 5, 2016 | Features & Gunfights
“The soldier, the cowboy and the rancher, the Indian, the horses and the cattle of the plains will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily believe, for all time.” President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1907 analysis of artist Frederic Remington’s legacy has been...
by Casey Tefertiller | Aug 24, 2016 | Features & Gunfights
One humiliation followed another for popular sheriff Johnny Behan on that fateful October afternoon. He stepped into the middle of a tense situation to prevent a gunfight, only to see the bullets fly around him and three of his friendly constituents shot to death....
by Rhiannon Deremo | Aug 15, 2016 | Departments, True Western Towns
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Locals First: Western Art of Jim Bagley & Jenny Gummersall Durango, CO, September 1-30: See contemporary Western paintings by Jim Bagley and Americana-style photography by Jenny Gummersall....