Wild West
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 31, 2011 at 4:08 pm
No survivors with George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn in June 1876? John Koster, author of Custer Survivor, says otherwise.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 31, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Since 1989 the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Ind., has been introducing Western art to a worldwide audience.
HistoryNet staff |
Published: February 11, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Wild West magazine has won its fourth Western Heritage Award, known as the Wrangler, for one of its articles. This year's article winner was "Taking Stock of the Pony Express," by Frederick J. Chiaventone, author of the Wrangler-winning novel "Moon of Bitter Creek."
Frederick J. Chiaventone |
Published: February 11, 2011 at 5:55 pm
The short-lived horseback mail service known as the Pony Express, which operated 150 years ago, was a business failure but a romantic triumph.
Douglas Brode |
Published: February 03, 2011 at 4:26 pm
The legend of the Yellow Rose, of how a woman helped secure the Texian victory at the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto by distracting Mexican leader Santa Anna, has taken many forms and colors through the years.
Wild West staff |
Published: December 03, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Bob Stinson likes to photograph modern Las Vegas showgirls at the graves of Old West characters like Doc Holliday, a unusual tribute to the dancehall girls who filled the dreams of cowboys on the trail.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: December 03, 2010 at 10:40 am
Author S.C. Gwynne addresses Quanah Parker's role in the history of the Comanche Nation is his New York Times best seller "Empire of the Summer Moon."
William B. Secrest |
Published: December 03, 2010 at 1:36 am
Late in life Calamity Jane, the legendary frontierswoman, lived in a world of saloons, dance halls and brothels. Actually, it wasn't so different from her younger days.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: December 02, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Gib Singleton's bronze "Tombstone" captures the emotional charge of that fateful day at the O.K. Corral in October 1881.
Dale L. Walker |
Published: October 01, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Wyoming-based author-editor-filmmaker and general renaissance woman Candy Moulton has devoted her life to telling the story of the American West.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: October 01, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Tom Lea's 1938 mural "Pass of the North" honors the giants who made El Paso. The Texan also illustrated books by J. Frank Dobie.
John H. Monnett |
Published: October 01, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Captain William Fetterman has been portrayed as an arrogant fire-eater who disobeyed orders and met disaster at Fort Phil Kearny in December 1866. But that familiar picture is distorted.
Published: August 22, 2010 at 3:46 am
One night dark and dreary……
Doug Hamilton, Berndt Kühn and Larry Ludwig |
Published: August 06, 2010 at 1:50 pm
After Apache warriors attacked a 10-man Army escort wagon headed for Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, the survivors, including an assistant surgeon, struggled to reach safety.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: August 06, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Artist Paul Sheldon became fascinated with the American Southwest as a child and shares that fascination in his paintings of Apaches, cowboys and the land itself.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: August 06, 2010 at 11:51 am
Kiowa Writer N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and now claims WWA’s Owen Wister Award.
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