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Why is this Man Forgotten?

Why is this Man Forgotten?

by | Mar 1, 2006 | Features & Gunfights

He was disgusted with what American society had made him into — what they expected of him — and he hated even more failing to live up to those expectations. On October 24, 1849, just east of Point of Rocks on the Santa Fe Trail, Jicarilla Apaches ambushed the party of...
Frontier Women at Arms

Frontier Women at Arms

by | Jul 1, 2005 | True Westerners

When Frank Butler loaded his guns at a fairground outside Cincinnati, Ohio, one spring day in 1881, the last thing in his thoughts was a legend about to be born. A professional exhibition shooter who counted himself among the best in the country, Butler was prepared...
Come and Take It

Come and Take It

by | May 1, 2005 | Travel & Preservation

Crockett … Travis … Houston … Bowie. … The Texas Independence Trail is about icons, so it’s only fitting that the first tombstone I notice at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin belongs to one of the Lone Star State’s biggest legends. Sure, I’m...
Handcarts and Heartaches

Handcarts and Heartaches

by | Apr 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

“Brethren and sisters, what I have said, I know to be true.” Levi Savage was a lone voice that hot August morning in 1856 as he graphically warned 500 of his fellow Latter-day Saints about the hazards of continuing their journey to the Mormon mecca of Salt Lake...