Riverboat captain Richard King got hold of some south Texas wilderness and with his […]
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A Carte de Visite of Billy the Kid
Copied from the legendary tintype, this image sold at auction last June for $15,000. […]
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The Lawman from Laramie: Nathaniel Kimball Boswell
N.K. Boswell was a badge wearer extraordinaire in Wyoming Territory who managed to keep […]
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A Tale of Two Sadies: The Story of Wyatt Earp’s Wife
Although Josephine Sarah ‘Sadie’ Marcus is best known as Wyatt Earp’s loving companion of nearly 50 years, she led an adventuresome earlier life, at times using the name Sadie Mansfield.
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Hell on Wheels: When Roller-Skating Took Western Towns by Storm
It wasn’t just cattle that were rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. In September 1884 a Miles […]
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Out of Vengeance or Plain Madness Felipe Espinosa Led a Murder Spree
In 1863 he and his brother terrorized central Colorado Territory. By March 1863 former […]
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The Mysterious Black Guide Who Showed Olmsted Yosemite Valley
‘Bell’ may in fact have been poet-activist James Madison Bell. A driving force in […]
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The Ho-Chunks Were Forced West, And Misery and Violence Followed
But in 1843 Captain Edwin Vose Sumner showed them mercy. In 1825 the Ho-Chunks […]
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Letter from the Editor: Wild West
Let me start by offering some questionable lyrics, with apologies to Harold Adamson, who […]
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Daily Quiz for February 28, 2017
A chocolate bar melting in a scientist’s pocket lead to this invention in 1945.