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Nocona's Raid and Cynthia Ann Parker's Recapture

Gregory Michno | Published: June 03, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Taken by Comanches at age 9 in 1836, Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured by whites nearly 24 years later when she returned to Texas with a raiding party led by her Indian husband.

Teddy Roosevelt's Ride to Recovery

Roger Di Silvestro | Published: April 14, 2010 at 11:06 am
As a young man, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to the Dakota Badlands to write, raise cattle and grieve heavy personal losses. He also laid the foundation of his presidency.

Wild West Magazine Article Wins Spur Award

Wild West staff | Published: April 02, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Roger Di Silvestro won a coveted Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his nonfiction article about Theodore Roosevelt, “Teddy’s Ride to Recovery,” which appeared in the October 2009 Wild West magazine.

Crush's Locomotive Crash Was a Monster Smash

J.R. Sanders | Published: April 02, 2010 at 3:08 pm
In the summer of 1896, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway charged its passenger agent William George Crush with boosting revenues. His unlikely solution: To stage a head-on train wreck and charge the public to watch.

Prix de West - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: April 02, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Tom Browning's oil The Dawn of a New Day won the Purchase Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's 2009 Prix de West art show and sale in Oklahoma City.

Interview with Author Mark Lee Gardner

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: April 02, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Mark Lee Gardner, author, historian and general renaissance man of the West, has written a dual biography of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Ambush and Siege at Paint Rock

Wayne R. Austerman | Published: February 05, 2010 at 3:37 pm
In March 1846, Jack Hays and a company of Texas Rangers ambushed a large raiding party on sacred Comanche ground, but the outnumbered Texians soon found themselves under siege.

Kevin Red Star - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: February 05, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Crow artist Kevin Red Star paints historical Indian subjects with strength, power and passion.

Interview with Historian Quintard Taylor

Candy Moulton | Published: February 05, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Quintard Taylor, University of Washington professor and leading scholar of black history in the American West, discusses that history and his upcoming tenure as president of the Western History Association.

Interview with Author Wm. B. Shillingberg

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: December 16, 2009 at 3:51 pm
After tackling tough Tombstone in print, author Wm. B. Shillingberg gets the hell into Dodge.

W.H.D. Koerner - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: December 16, 2009 at 3:05 pm
If any painting has ever captured the misery of cowboy and cattle, and the deadliness of Western weather, it is W.H.D. Koerner’s "Hard Winter."

Valentine's Day Shootout at Stoneville

Les Kruger | Published: December 16, 2009 at 12:54 pm
In 1884 in the Montana Territory hamlet of Stoneville, the George Axelby Gang shot it out with a posse from Spearfish, Dakota Territory—and afterward lynch justice prevailed.

The Red-Haired Captive and the Fight at Pinta Trail Crossing

Wayne R. Austerman | Published: December 16, 2009 at 12:28 pm
In 1841 Chief Yellow Wolf and his Comanche raiders were heading back to Hill Country with an Irish prisoner when Captain Jack Hays and his company of Texas Rangers attacked.

Glenn Boyer Answers Six Questions About Wyatt Earp

Wild West magazine | Published: October 01, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Author Glenn Boyer answers some of the oft-asked questions posed by Wyatt Earp fans.

Scott Dyke on Glenn Boyer and the Boyer Collection

Wild West magazine | Published: October 01, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Scott Dyke, a former Wall Street broker, banker, businessman and investigator talks with Wild West magazine about the extensive Glenn Boyer collection relating to Wyatt Earp, his family and his contemporaries.

Becky Olvera Schultz - Art of the West

Johnny D. Boggs | Published: October 01, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Becky Olvera Schultz turned to clay as a way of working out grief over the death of her brother. Her catharsis has become a career.
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