Did Remington Capture Clanton’s Last Breath?Art unexpectedly imitated life in master artist Frederic Remington’s first sold work.
At the age of 19, Frederic Remington had yet to find a purpose in life when he boarded a train west on August 10, 188…
Reno Gang’s Disappearing Money
The Reno Gang grabbed $97,000 in a May 1868 train holdup near Marshfield, Indiana. But what happened to the money? Al…
Arizona’s Quirky Diagonal Border
The reason Arizona doesn’t have a seaport on the Sea of Cortez is a persistent legend that just won’t go away. Looking at a map one sees a l…
Remington in Arizona
In 1888, New York illustrator extraordinaire Frederic Remington accompanied the 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers in Ariz…
An Epic Life of a LawmanThomas Dunne Books, $29.95
The opening two sentences of John Boessenecker’s Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, The Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde (Thomas Dunne Book…
Secrets from the Horse’s Mouth
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, one of the New Deal programs was to pay writers to document the stories of …
Northwestern Mystery Author Shares Favorite Reads
Carol Wright Crigger began her writing career using initials (C.K.) on the premise they would cause her work to be ta…
Hangin’ Time
John Wesley Hardin’s older brother Joe was lynched on June 6, 1874. At least part of the reason: Wes’ killing of Brow…
How Far Would You Walk to Get Home?For a White Mountain Apache grandmother named Diltche, you'd walk a thousand miles. Her story is one of courage, endurance and love.
Around 1860, Diltche was captured by another tribe and sold into slavery, taken far away from her home in north-easte…
Can you shed some light on a photo of Red Cloud’s wife in a cabin featuring a Japanese katana sword on the wall?
Can you shed some light on a photo of Red Cloud’s wife in a cabin featuring a Japanese katana sword on the wall? Dan …
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.
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 his cabin mates, Ray turned to…
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