The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by […]
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Wild West Review: Showdown!
Showdown! Lionhearted Lawmen of Old California by William B. Secrest, Craven Street Books, Fresno, […]
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Colts That Weren’t: Some Were Legal, Most Were Forgeries
Many copies saw use in the Mexican revolutions. When I was buying antique guns […]
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The Grand Museum of the Fur Trade Is Nebraska’s ‘Jewel on Bordeaux Creek’
Its trove of artifacts celebrates a hair-raising era. Call it the early Wild West, […]
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Ghost Towns: Schellbourne, Nevada
In 1859 the Pony Express built a station on Schell Creek in central Utah […]
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Boone May: Bane of the Badmen
The stagecoach shotgun messenger who worked his weapons on the dangerous road from Deadwood […]
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Tascosa’s Grave Situation: In and Out of Boot Hill
As documentary records of Tascosa’s early history are sparse, establishing just how many men […]
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Tascosa: Hell Town of the Texas Panhandle
‘The hardest place on the frontier’ was a hideout for Lone Star State fugitives […]
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Disaster at Burke Canyon
In the winter of 1910, an avalanche nearly erased tiny Mace, Idaho, but things […]
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Out-of-State Papers More Objective
As expected, newspapers geographically removed from the hysteria of South Dakota were more objective […]