At what point, during WWII, would newspaper or radio news have informed the rural […]
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Video Review: Gunslingers, American Experience
Gunslingers, by American Heroes Channel, and American Experience: America’s Wild West by PBS Home […]
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Sharps Called Its Model 1874 ‘Old Reliable,’ And the Popular Rifle Lived Up to Its Name
Legend has it no two were ever manufactured exactly alike. Colt, Winchester, Smith & […]
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Lone Pine Film History Museum Makes the Reel West Feel Real
The late Jim Rogers made this paean to Westerns possible. It was in 1920, […]
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Brandon (& Smuggler City), Montana
A couple of miles east of the village of Sheridan, Montana, in the foothills […]
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With Cornmeal and Creativity: Food on the Great Plains
Farmers on the Great Plains depended on fickle nature for their diet, and many […]
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The Singer, the Banjoist, and the Bullets
Singer Fannie Garrettson was certainly upstaged in Deadwood the night a former lover hurled […]
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Montana Territory Massacre: Blood on the Snow
Soldiers got the right tribe but the wrong band in 1870 when they attacked […]
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Legend of the Apache Kid
When the trusted U.S. Army scout killed his father’s killer, that act of revenge set him on a course as a renegade whom no one could catch on either side of the Mexican border.
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Bold Sierra Nevada Miners Struck ‘Gold’ in Ski Racing
By the 1860s, with cash incentives, they pushed speed to the limit. The 19th-century […]