From dime novels to museums, Western pulp art and illustration has reached its zenith. A.R. Mitchell drifted into the office of Cowboy Stories...
Pulp Redemption
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What History Has Taught Me: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell For over 60 years, Northern Cheyenne artist Ben Nighthorse has been creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind, award-winning...
What History Has Taught Me: L. J. Martin
I thankfully grew up in Bakersfield, in the center of the Oklahoma and Texas of California, Kern County. One hundred miles physically from L.A., but...
What History Has Taught Me: Johnny D. Boggs
My mother and father... Songwriter Rodney Crowell wrote my life story in “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream)”: “But Mama kept the...
Seeking Common Ground
The good news first: the end of the 1918 influenza pandemic in 1920 led almost directly to the Roaring Twenties because everyone in the country was so ready to kick out the jams after all the death and depressing times. So let’s hope that history repeats itself this year.
Early Entertainment: Bulls VS Bears A Fight To The Death Between A Bull And A Grizzly Bear.
Early Entertainment: Bulls VS. Bears People love to bet, and they would bet on just about anything. Horse racing was one of America's most popular...
Branding The history of one of the West's most iconic symbols!
Branding of livestock dates all the way back to the Egyptians to around 2,700B.C. It spread to Europe in the Middle Ages and was introduced in...
Motorized Posses, Deadly Dry-gulchers And Indian Tobacco
Who was the first sheriff to pursue outlaws in a motorized vehicle? Why’d the women of the Donner Party fare better than the men? And more!
The Donner Party Disaster The tragedy that befell the Donner Party in 1846 outranks them all ...
I don't know if anyone recorded the number of dishonest wagon masters, but in the hundreds of wagon trains heading to Oregon or California there...
Blind Pig Bonanza
A new biography on the bonanza-seeking Earps, plus new Western histories and biographies on an Old West rifle, Spanish Texas, a coal war gunman and a Sioux War reporter.
When Did The Civil War Really Begin? “He who controls the mouth of the Mississippi River controls the West.”
In 1784, Spain, looking from her outposts in Louisiana and Florida, watched America’s growing western frontier with a menacing eye and made a...
Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
What became of Wyatt Earp’s horse, Dick Naylor? When did the first autos appear in the Wild West towns? There is a U.S. National Forest map “The Apache Kid Wilderness” that shows the Apache Kid’s gravesite. Is that accurate? And more.