Larry Smith Austria Sending messages by smoke signals was a simple form of communication used mostly by the Plains Indians and in the Southwest...
Eugene O’Brien Union, New Jersey The famous photo of the Arizona Rangers was taken in Morenci, Arizona, during the mining strike in 1903. The tall...
Patrick Wheaton Camby, IN I called James Denniston in Jackson, Wyoming, who specializes in books on the Old West, and he suggests The Plains Across...
Ed Young Dallas, Texas “Three-Shooter Bill” was a two-bit outlaw and small time con man who earned his nickname because he was only half as bad as...
Toni Via the Internet Horsemen have used spurs at least since the days of knights in shining armor. Spurs were generally used to control the animal,...
Richard Diaz Shreveport, Louisiana In 1879, the Texas legislature appropriated three million acres of land in the Texas Panhandle to finance a new...
Kent Martin Elkridge, Maryland Some suggest it’s a whiskey flask, while others say it’s a medicine pouch, but it’s a small knife in a scabbard. The...
Charles Herrick El Segundo, California The general consensus, conspiracy theorists notwithstanding, is the U.S. wasn’t involved in any plot to get...
Kriya Singh Via the Internet Frederick Jackson Turner, in his 1893 essay, “The Frontier in American History,” claimed the frontier ended in 1890 and...
Roy McKay Phoenix, Arizona Your guide needs to take a refresher course on jojoba beans. They contain no caffeine. He’s right about the cowboys...
Glenn Hebert Albuquerque, New Mexico I checked with Casey Tefertiller, one of the best experts on the Spicer hearing, and he says the original...
I've read that Billy the Kid had a brother. What happened to him? Dennis Bagwell Anaheim, California Billy had a brother, or perhaps a half brother,...