by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 31, 2016 | Features & Gunfights
James Butler Hickok, born on a farm in northern Illinois in 1837, leaves home at age 18, gravitating to Kansas Territory, with his brother Lorenzo, in 1856. James works at various frontier jobs, including teamster and stage driver. Within the next 20 years, he will...
by Tim Dasso | Oct 4, 2016 | Features & Gunfights
The young warriors of the Penateka Comanche tribe, several hundreds of them, lined up on one side of their camping ground along the San Saba River in Texas, opposite the women and children on the other. In the center of this array, the three head chiefs, Buffalo Hump,...
by Darren Jensen | Feb 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Panhandle Plains Invitational Art Show & Sale Canyon, TX, March 5: Contemporary Southwestern art, such as Cow Country by H.D. Bugbee, goes on sale to raise money for the Panhandle-Plains...
by Meghan Saar | Dec 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Now began the real work….Rawhide ‘riatas’ were taken down, and a man rode into the bunch swinging the loop round his head like clockwork. All at once he let it go, carelessly it seemed, so sudden was it; a quick turn or two round the horn of his Spanish saddle,...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
The original hero of publishing, Johannes Gutenberg would be amazed at the state of books in 2015…and I dare say he would love it. Despite cries from all corners about the death of the book, the publishing of Western books remains dynamic. Publishers—large and small,...