Among the stories of the Old West, few are more exciting than the manhunts that pitted frontier authority against those who would kill, plunder and...
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The Horseless Carriage Was Seriously Underestimated
“The horseless carriage...will never come into as common use as the bicycle,” the Literary Digest declared in 1899—two years after Henry Ford and...
Shopping from Home in 1897 with Sears Roebuck
Here's a sampling of what one could shop for in 1897 in the Sears Roebuck Catalogue, known officially as the “Consumer's Guide” but popularly as the...
Good for a Laugh… and a Shiver
The New Mexico Territory has one helluva hard case on the loose! Jim Jones’s The Big Empty (Five Star, $25.95) whips up the intense landscape of New...
The Western War Between the States
Among the thousands of volumes treating the American Civil War rare is the study venturing west of the Mississippi River. Andrew E. Masich’s Civil...
She Was the Best Man of the Party
The name Juliet Brier doesn't leap to mind when thinking about the courageous women who endured the wagon train trip to California. But it should....
This Month in History: May
May is a great month for birthdays to celebrate icons of the west—both human and major events--so let's bake a cake. This year, we'd have put 180...
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917
What happens when a corporation, the sheriff and citizens are all in collusion to do something “wholly illegal?” The giant Bisbee Deportation of...
Don’t Go Wakin’ Snakes
Old West slang was colorful and inventive and often brings a laugh. But they sure got their points across. Consider these: Someone would tell you...
Longeared Lingo
ASS (Equus Asinus): Species commonly known as the domesticated “donkey” in English and “burro” in Spanish. The different sizes of donkeys in the...
True Westerner: Lee Anderson, Equine Historian
A retired aerospace engineer living in Waddell, Arizona, Lee Anderson has spent more than 60 years studying equine training methods and traditions...
Stagecoach Etiquette
Thanks to an 1877 Omaha Herald article, we know how we should have behaved if we'd taken a stagecoach in the old west. First, we were advised that...