Following Red CloudThe legendary Oglala Lakota chief was a visionary leader in war and peace.
Scout’s Rest Ranch, known today as Buffalo Bill State Historical Park in North Platte, Nebraska, might seem like an o…
Billy Hutchinson’s Bird Cage Theater
Billy Hutchinson, who opened the Bird Cage on December 23rd, 1881, proved up on the old adage, once an entertainer al…
Gotta Know the Lingo
In the old west, you didn’t have an Ace hidden in your poker hand when you had an “ace in the hole.” What you had was a hidden pistol conceal…
Teddy’s Roughest RidersChicago Review Press, $26.95
Jerome Tuccille’s book titled The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish American War…
Beyond the Border with Crook
Dressed in a sack coat and carrying a shotgun, riding a mule and wearing a pith helmet, Gen. George Crook looked more like a duck hunter than the i…
The Nude Duel that Will Not DieProstitutes Bang Away
August 24, 1877 A wild picnic is in progress just outside the city limits of Denver, Colorado. Notorious brothel owne…
Fred Waite and the Lincoln County War
Fred Waite got out of the Lincoln County War alive—and managed to turn his life around. In 1878, Waite joined Billy t…
The Youngers Visit Madelia
After their capture at Hanska Slough following the ill-fated Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery, Cole, Bob and Jim Yo…
Drunk As Skunks
Drinking too much alcohol in the Old West was a year-round sporting event and, of course, had its own slang. If someo…
You Slapped Wyatt Earp and Lived to Tell?
That historical honor goes to U.S. Marshall Albert Lowe of Nome, Alaska in the late 1890s, who reportedly slapped an …
A Brilliant But Doomed MissionA little-known 1895 plan to track down the Apaches could have prevented many deaths, children in captivity and chaos in the borderlands.
Seats of LuxuryBear in mind these strange creations by Pacific Coast nimrod Seth Kinman.
The First Mountain ManWhy is John Colter widely considered to be the first of these hardy frontiersmen?
John Colter was a good hunter, a skilled woodsman, got along well with Indians and had a knack for surviving hazards and hardships that put other m…
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