Requiem of the RustlersIn Wyoming’s contentious Johnson County War, homesteading ranchers lost lives and livelihood over a trumped-up charge.
Nick Ray stepped outside the cabin into the morning light, looking for Ben Jones and Billy Walker. Seeing no sign of …
Bud Ledbetter, The Fourth Guardsman
You’ve all heard of Oklahoma’s storied “Three Guardsmen,” Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman and Chris Madsen, but there was …
Blazing Pols
As volatile as today’s politics seem, I find it somewhat comforting to know that in the Old West, it was even worse. During the 1871 election seaso…
Deadwood, South Dakota: Entertaining Guests Since 1876Sponsored by the City of Deadwood, South Dakota
In 1876, miners looking for gold in the Black Hills came across a mess of dead trees and a gulch full of gold. They s…
Ruthless Joe Sparrow
Joe Sparrow was scared of Print Olive, a man who had a long string of killings to his credit. And now Print was mad at Sparrow, who couldn’t pay of…
Jesus Went West, Too
Lots of people get credit for settling the west—trappers, explorers, miners, the military, ranchers, homesteaders, ev…
The Wind and the DarknessPaul Andrew Hutton’s epic history The Apache Wars resets our idea of the 25-year tri-cultural border conflict, while a new biography of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, the tragedy of the Baker Massacre, the wild tale of Russian Bill, and tales of the Old and New West enlighten and entertain.
In the Bible’s Book of Revelation, John the Apostle prophesizes the coming of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: Co…
Show Low vs. a Straight Flush
Two ranchers, Corydon Cooley and Marion Clark, decided the valley they lived in wasn’t big enough for the both of the…
Brazen Hazen
Larry Hazen (sitting, right in 1885) was one of the great law officers of the 1800s—still, you’ve probably never hear…
Eating on the Move
It took careful planning to figure out what food to take on a wagon train. Everything to feed a family for months—exc…
Requiem of the RustlersIn Wyoming’s contentious Johnson County War, homesteading ranchers lost lives and livelihood over a trumped-up charge.
The Ordeal of Larcena PenningtonA true tale of Western survival more gripping than The Revenant.
One-Armed BanditsAmerica’s last frontier saloons ushered in mechanized gaming devices.
California was bursting at the seams with fortune seekers in 1885, when 23-year-old Charles Fey landed in San Francisco. Gaming was made illegal in…
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