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Jesse James Tastes BloodA teenager notched his first victims at the Centralia Massacre.

What can you tell me about Jack Slade’s wife?

Screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the movie was originally titled Comancheria before being called Hell or High Water. Ben Foster (at left) and Chris Pine (at right) play brothers who attempt a bank robbery to save their West Texas family farm.
– All Hell or High Water photos By Lorey Sebastian -

A Defiant Outlaw-Hero BalladJeff Bridges and Buck Taylor’s latest Western leaves you sympathetic to the outlaws.

Big Jim French

Big Jim French was at most of the important actions in the Lincoln County War. Perhaps most notably, he was one of the g…

Bob McDaniel had the good fortune of knowing he helped saved a historic barn before he died, at the age of 86, this February. David Leonard Hoover’s barn, shown circa 1890s, will house the Save Our Heritage Organisation’s historic vehicles, such as the
Concord stage, shown in inset, with (from left) Bruce Coons, his wife, Alana, and stagecoach builder Jim Jensen. Next to the barn, you can see the 1884 Santa Ysabel
Store in the background. Turn to Opening Shot for a closer look.
– Courtesy Save Our Heritage Organisation –

A Barn Worth SavingA group of San Diegans preserve another forgotten piece of California history.

“So, you’re the people who save things.” Bob McDaniel was looking for exactly those kind of people because …

Tom Horn, Roper Extraordinaire

Cowboy Tom Horn of Pleasant Valley, Arizona, won the steer tying competition at the Globe Fourth of July Celebration in 1889 with a record-setting tim…

The Shoot Out in Holbrook

For newly-elected Apache County Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens, events were moving rapidly towards his rendezvous with de…

Boot Hill Museum is the premier heritage destination in Dodge City, Kansas. A traditional longhorn cattle drive through town and past the museum’s Front Street is a highlight of the 12-day Dodge City Days celebration, held every year at the end of July.
– Max McCoy –

Go West!Stories of Western heritage engage visitors of today…and the future.

Museums across the West continue to embrace Old West stories with exhibits on John C. Fremont, Liver Eatin’ Johnston, cattle trails and the Buffalo so…

Kitty LeRoy Was A Jig Dancer And Much More

It was said the voluptuous Kitty LeRoy had been to the alter twenty-seven times. That sounds like an exaggeration but on…

August, the Dirty Low-Down Month

That’s how Wild Bill Hickok would have described it in 1876, if he’d lived to tell the tale. The month actua…

Baseball at the O.K. Corral

Thanks to Rev. Endicott Peabody, mere months after the so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881, Tombstone …

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Go West!Stories of Western heritage engage visitors of today…and the future.

Mickey Free (right) and the post trader at Camp Verde, Arizona, circa 1877.
- Courtesy Sharlot Hall Museum -

Mickey FreeThe True Story Behind our Graphic Novel

The Trickster with the Sidewinder GazeMickey Free: The Hunt for the Apache Kid

Prologue PROVING GROUND The boy is emaciated. His mop of red hair hangs across his scarred face, obscuring a lost eye. He staggers and stumbles up the…