Wild West
Published: March 31, 2012 at 1:34 am
The June 2012 issue of Wild West features stories about Libbie Custer's enduring love for her "Boy General," the "Arapaho Five" at the Little Bighorn, plural marriage among the Plains Indians, Kansas' lethal innkeepers the Bloody Benders, and the long-gone California grizzlies.
Published: March 31, 2012 at 1:12 am
The Bloody Benders of Kansas were reputedly the worst serial killers of the Old West. Does anyone else on the frontier even come close? Note: The Benders sure enough killed many unwary travelers, but greed seemed their principal motive.…
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm
Since 1961 the Fort Worth museum has showcased the works of Remington, Russell and other legends of Western art.
David McCormick |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 11:33 pm
The odd Kansas foursome ran an inn that proved deadly to travelers for years before suspicious neighbors did some digging in the family’s apple orchard and learned the gruesome facts
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:54 pm
In his new book After Custer, Paul Hedren draws on his extensive knowledge of the Great Sioux War to paint a picture of changing life on the Prairie in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Paul L. Hedren shares his unprecedented knowledge of the Great Sioux War in After Custer, an account of the rapid changes on the Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:17 pm
In Custer's Best, U.S. Army veteran Colonel French L. MacLean relates the history of 7th U.S. Cavalry Company M, one of a dozen companies that followed George Custer to the Little Bighorn in June 1876 and fought atop Reno Hill.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 9:48 pm
The memoir Deep Trails in the Old West highlights Welsh-born ranch hand Frank Clifford, a peripheral player in the dramatic events that rocked frontier New Mexico.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Roy Young highlights Arizona Territory Judge William H. Stilwell in this biography, the first volume of a trilogy about the Stilwell family in the Wild West.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 8:57 pm
The National Film Preservation Foundation takes a look at the "real West" that followed and overlapped the real West in its latest "Treasures" release "The West, 1898-1938."
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 8:32 pm
A what-if drama centered on Western outlaw Butch Cassidy, "Blackthorn" isn't a bad film, but it is a strange film.
Published: March 30, 2012 at 7:11 pm
In the June issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about photographer John Swartz, Buffalo Bill, Homestead National Monument, desperadoes of the Ozarks, the two Emma Mastersons and Tennessean Clay Allison.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 3:27 pm
The 19-century Wild West was notorious for its violence, but would any of its cold-blooded man-killers meet the modern definition of a serial killer?
Paul Andrew Hutton |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 2:48 pm
The 1836 Battle of the Alamo, immortalized by Texans, also remains in the national memory, thanks to Travis’ line in the sand, Crockett’s death and lesser ‘battles’ that ensued there
Louis Kraft |
Published: March 01, 2012 at 11:56 am
The Army officer best known for his vocal criticism of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre was once a ‘wildcat sort of fellow’ who dished out his own brand of frontier justice in Kansas Territory
Mark Dworkin |
Published: February 28, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Walter Noble Burns wrote a trilogy that made household names of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Joaquín Murrieta. But the author’s own story is little known.
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