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Old West Icons
Shot for Snoring?
- Published August 28, 2011
- Written by Bob Boze Bell
Charles Couger is sitting on a bed reading a newspaper in the American House in Abilene, Kansas.
The Holy Grail for Sale
- Published May 24, 2011
- Written by Mark Boardman
The Billy the Kid tintype is on the auction block, and it might just clear half a million.
A Mirror with a Memory
- Published February 16, 2010
- Written by Meghan Saar
An Indian with his thick, long braids wrapped in otter fur stands beside an oil portrait of a woman and a baby.
Celebrating Buffalo Bill
- Published May 02, 2011
- Written by Steve Friesen
Johnny Baker founded the Buffalo Bill Museum in 1921 near William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s grave on Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado. It was the first museum dedicated to telling about the life and times of Buffalo Bill.
Pancho Villa and the El Paso Connection
- Published February 01, 2009
- Written by Leon C. Metz
Although Pancho Villa—whose real name was Doroteo Arango—is the best known figure of the Mexican Revolution, Villa would perhaps never have gained such recognition were it not for Porfirio Díaz.
Outlaw Ranch
- Published April 26, 2011
- Written by Lazelle Jones
Arriving with his dad and uncle in 1889 to homestead the lower end of Utah’s Desolation Canyon where Florence Creek empties into the Green River, Jim McPherson could not have imagined that more than 120 years later his progeny would still be here, a continuing and permanent fixture on the east central Utah landscape.
I Will Kidnap No More Forever
- Published June 01, 2008
- Written by Candy Moulton
Tourists had been sojourning in Yellowstone National Park each summer since just after its establishment in 1872.
How Did Davy Really Die?
- Published February 22, 2011
- Written by Bob Boze Bell
Just after midnight, Gen. Santa Anna orders his 2,064 troops to move toward their assault positions.
Was He a Hero?
- Published April 01, 2008
- Written by Louis S. Warren
How did Buffalo Bill Cody survive the ravages of time?
The Lunacy of Billy the Kid
- Published July 27, 2010
- Written by Mark Boardman
Two New Mexico lawmen receive death threats after digging up a body in Arizona.
Dreamscape Desperado
- Published April 01, 2007
- Written by Paul Andrew Hutton
"Billy the Kid just keeps riding across the dreamscape of our minds-silhouetted against a starlit Western sky, handsome, laughing, deadly."
General Palmer's Baby Railroad
- Published February 16, 2010
- Written by Joyce B. Lohse
In 1870, a former Union Army general named William Palmer supervised construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway into Denver, Colorado.
