Wild West
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:38 pm
In his latest book, Dakota Dawn, Gregory Michno tracks the bloody first week of the 1862 Minnesota Sioux Uprising.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Meek's Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt, offers a sometimes agonizingly realistic look at life on the Oregon Trail of the 1840s.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Winston Groom's new book, Kearny's March, is the story of a year (1846-47) as related through the personal vignettes of several historic figures.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:16 pm
In his book The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery, Joe Johnston reconstructs the details of this 1883 shotgun killing in Missouri.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 5:08 pm
In his new book Vengeance Is Mine, Bill Neal delves into the passions behind the Boyce-Sneed Feud in early 20th century Amarillo.
Published: December 02, 2011 at 1:31 pm
PBS' American Experience adds to its lineup of Western offerings with new episodes on Billy the Kid and Custer's Last Stand.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Buck Taylor, former cast member of the TV series Gunsmoke, now creates historically themed paintings and posters for various rodeos.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: December 02, 2011 at 12:41 pm
California-based author Lee Silva has earned his reputation as a Western historian, Old West firearms expert and Wyatt Earp authority.
R.K. DeArment |
Published: December 01, 2011 at 7:27 pm
With a Western gunfighter’s looks and the nickname and nerve to match, Richard "Two-Gun" Hart enforced Prohibition even as his notorious lawbreaking brother made national headlines.
Published: December 01, 2011 at 6:31 pm
In the February issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Old West writer Eugene Field, big-screen look-alikes, Smith & Wesson No. 3s, Arizona gun laws, and a long-forgotten gunfight in Bodie, Calif.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: December 01, 2011 at 5:57 pm
In 2012 Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of the Homestead Act, while New Mexicans and Arizonans throw their respective 100th birthday parties.
Published: October 09, 2011 at 10:25 pm
The December 2011 issue of Wild West features stories about the iconic photo of the infamous Fort Worth Five, the aftermath of Lt. Col. George Custer's 1868 victory over Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle, Wounded Knee reporter Teresa Dean, the controversial 1886 death of black Mormon sheepherder Gobo Fango, and West Pointer turned white renegade Thomas Twiss.
Published: October 09, 2011 at 9:59 pm
How do you rate the performance of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the November 27, 1868, Battle of the Washita (near present-day Cheyenne, Okla.), including the way he handled the loss of Major Joel Elliott and his small party …
Published: October 06, 2011 at 5:01 pm
In the December issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Texas badmen, Pat Garrett, frontier surveyors and personal recollections of the West.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 4:22 pm
As valuable as our cover image of the Fort Worth Five may be, the only known tintype of Billy the Kid fetched $2.3 million at auction last summer.
Arnold Blumberg |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 3:44 pm
The death of popular 7th Cavalry officer Major Joel Elliott at the 1868 Battle of the Washita—and Lt. Col. George Custer's response to it—spawned hard feelings and disunity within the fabled unit.
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