Eugene Beauharnois Overton is the easiest to track down of the three men who joined a hunt with Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, and Wild Bill in the summer of 1873...

It is one of the most recognizable images of western men in existence. Three legends of the Wild West, dressed the part, together in the same picture. In th...

199 years ago, on March 20th, 1821, Edward Zane Carroll Judson was born. Under the pen name Ned Buntline, he wrote the stories that brought Texas Jack and Bu...

One of the most satisfying parts of my research is uncovering rare or unique images of Texas Jack and the cast of characters that surrounded him. When Docto...

On Thursday, March 14, 1895, a farmhouse in Billerica, Massachusetts, caught fire in the middle of the night and burned down. The owner of the farm had move...

In 1876, Buffalo Bill Cody and Texas Jack Omohundro joined up as civilian scouts with the Army in pursuit of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief Gall and the ot...

Buffalo Bill Cody, who was born 173 years ago on February 26, 1846, was a brave man. By the time he turned 24 he had fought in the Civil War, ridden messages...

This story was included as a part of the series Prairie Pards; Or, Tails of Border Trails in Beadle & Adams' New York Saturday Journal. The series was writt...

Valentine Walter Bromley was born to be an artist. He learned his craft from his father, Walter Bromley III, a talented engraver turned painter whose art wa...

Kirk Douglas passed away today at the age of 103. A legendary actor who starred in roles as diverse as Vincent Van Gogh, Doc Holliday, Spartacus, and Ulysse...

Julia Bricklin's new book, The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline: A Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and the Creation of Buffalo Bill, comes out on June 1, 2020 from ...

Today we wish a happy birthday to writer and wilderness advocate Edward Abbey, who would have been 93 years old today. This is the benediction he wrote for h...

On December 22nd, 1873, just a year after they became theatre stars with the premiere their play The Scouts of the Prairie, Buffalo Bill Cody shot and killed...

Today, football is the most popular sport in America. From high-school through college and into the National Football League, football draws fans into stadi...

On January 10, 1917, 103 years ago this week, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody died. His life took him from message delivery boy for the parent company of the ...

I wanted to end the year by posting some of the wonderful books I've read this year. I've linked to Amazon for ease of reference, but I can't encourage you e...

Merry Christmas to all!

Before December 16, 1872 there was no “Wild West.” West of the Mississippi River there were gamblers and lawmen, thieves and cowboys, braves and banditos, bu...

On this date, the first advertisement for what would be the father of the modern Western appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Note that the play is said to be en...

180 years ago, on December 5th, 1839, George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio. His father was a farmer and a blacksmith who impressed upon the ...