So little information exists about the childhood and youth of Billy the Kid that many of us, happening upon the merest morsel, swallow it eagerly...
She Taught the Kid a Lesson
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History Features
A Blood-Stained Memento
They met that March 11, 1884, in Austin, Texas, by chance or plan ... we don’t know for sure. But their meeting was to be an historic and a tragic...
I’ve Not Been Everywhere, Man.
As a lifelong fan of the West, I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that there’s a few Old West historic sites that I haven’t visited yet. Most...
Nothing Left but Dust
Put me somewhere west of East Street, where there’s nothing left but dust, And the boys are all abustling and everything’s gone bust; And where the...
Colorado’s Pioneer Cemeteries
A bustling sensation of the Westward Movement rumbled from the Plains to the very Rocky Mountains that held a man’s dream. The original gold strike...
Blown Out of Bed
A deep distrust of law and order was felt throughout the West in the 1880s ... for good reason. Labor and Capital fought tooth and nail for their...
A Quick 300 Years
Long before Chris Columbus was a twinkle in his daddy’s eye, Pueblos lived in the Rio Grande Valley, farming what would become present-day...
Why is this Man Forgotten?
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...
Kid Exhumation Nixed
Nobody is going to dig up Billy the Kid. Nor his Mom. And anyone who still wonders if young Billy was killed 123 years ago by Sheriff Pat Garrett—as...
Survival
A life-or-death price tag came with settling the Old West: By their wits, their guts and their best guesses, Westerners had to learn to survive. If...
Texas Tornados & Hoosier Maniacs
Texas badman has such a great ring to it. And, in terms of old West history, it’s one of those rare exceptions where legend meets the truth and is a...
How The New York Herald Scooped the U.S. Army on Custer
Custer stories never seem to die out. But even if Custer had never been a part of this story, it would be a good one, involving among other things a...