Blame it on Joseph McCoy. The entrepreneur turned Abilene, Kansas, into a cowtown, which made the Chisholm Trail synonym…
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One Way to Save the Ranch
It was a familiar story in the Old West. Family ranch catches the eye of a cattleman’s association that wants to b…
Stuart’s Stranglers
Stuart’s Stranglers had a brief but deadly life in 1884. Civic and political leader Granville Stuart formed the group a…
Buck Taylor: The Original King of the Cowboys
When Bill Cody introduced his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” in 1883 a featured presentation was Custer’s Last Stand. The hi…
Cowboys? No Turkeyboys
There were a number of ways a young man could become a cattleman. He could hire out as a cowboy, gather and brand maveri…
Arizona Cattle Company and the A1 Brand
The arrival of Mormon colonists from Utah in 1876 heralded the first permanent Anglo-American settlements in northern Ar…
The Rise of the Cow-Boys In search of the real Curly Bill.
The cowboys’ genesis lay in the savvy and the six-shooters of John Kinney, one of the most notorious outlaws of the Sout…
The Chiricahua Cattle Company
One of the most revered names in the history of the cattle industry in Arizona is the Chiricahua Cattle Company or, as i…
The Baca Float #5 “The O RO Brand”
Bob Sharp, who managed the 257,000-acre Baca Float from 1937 to 1952 wrote in his Big Outfit: Ranching on the Baca Float…
The Outlaw King of Galeyville
Galeyville, on the eastern slopes of the Chiricahua Mountains wasn’t much different from other tent camp mining to…