Trails to IndependenceCelebrate American spirit in the historic pioneer communities that built the West.
The American West’s awe-inspiring vistas—the seemingly endless prairies of the Great Plains, the great wall of snowcappe…
Frank Eaton “Pistol Pete”
Recently somebody asked me about the Oklahoma State University Cowboy’s mascot “Pistol Pete.” The West in the early 1900…
A Sobering Arizona Fact
No matter how big our problems have been, at least one guy always claims to have the answers to everything. You know, that drunk guy at the bar. Arizo…
The Cowboy Artist StarJoe Beeler helped pave the path for artists whose works sell in the millions today.
In the 1960s, Joe Beeler rode his horse daily on a six-mile trip to his mailbox from his home on Oklahoma’s Quapaw Reser…
Climax Jim Rides Again
During the years around 1900 a slippery outlaw named Rufus Nephew aka “Climax Jim” managed to foil lawmen again and again. One time he was indicted fo…
Gunfight Behind the OK Corral
On a blustery October day in 1881 Tombstone, the Earp brothers—Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan—joined Doc Holliday in an attemp…
Hume: Master Detective
James B. Hume’s father had plans for the boy—he would farm the family land in northern Indiana. But when Hume became a m…
Yuma’s History Comes HomeA town’s rich legacy is all cleaned up and ready to explore.
Yuma, Arizona’s “attic” was all over town—60 years of historical records, photographs and family histories dating as far…
A True West Writer’s 40-Year Journey
Did Remington Capture Clanton’s Last Breath?Art unexpectedly imitated life in master artist Frederic Remington’s first sold work.
The Rise of the Toughest Texas RangerThe Texas Hill Country Life that shaped Frank Hamer into the greatest American lawman of the 20th century.
Texas bred tough men, and none came any tougher than Frank Hamer. He was to the Lone Star State what Wyatt Earp was to Arizona and what Wild Bill Hick…
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