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Sarah Kirby threw down the newspaper and paced across the room, only to turn and race back to the crumpled pages.  She picked them up, smoothed them out, and once again read the diatribe against her penned by John Hambleton.  Sarah was stricken with grief at the suicide of Hambleton’s wife.  That the actor should...

Hundreds of cheering fans flocked to the train depot in Caney, Kansas, on Sunday, October 24, 1920, to welcome the Yankee Robinson Circus to town.  When the coast and crew alighted from the multiple cars, the men, women, and children on hand to greet them applauded excitedly.  Most of the townspeople followed after the performers...

Sarah Kirby threw down the newspaper and paced across the room, only to turn and race back to the crumpled pages.  She picked them up, smoothed them out, and once again read the diatribe against her penned by John Hambleton.  Sarah was stricken with grief at the suicide of Hambleton’s wife.  That the actor should...

The Apache leader known as Geronimo stood near an overhanging cliff in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona studying the terrain before him.  His keen eye traveled across the rocks and valley below.  It was unlikely the U. S. cavalry would track the fugitive into the rocky stronghold, but Geronimo didn’t like to underestimate the army’s...

It was almost eight in the morning on June 3, 1895, when Jennie Freeman and Belle Black rode into the quiet, unassuming town of Fairview, Oklahoma.  The women, who would later be described by the people they robbed as “neither young, fair, nor dashing”, steered their rides toward a large, brick building that was a...

(1894-1986) The stylish lobby of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth was a bustle of activity on Saturday, March 11, 1922.  Well-dressed patrons were arriving and departing.  A string quartet in the corner of the massive entryway serenaded white-haired, prosperous looking gentlemen and their stocky, bejeweled wives being escorted to their rooms by attentive bellboys. ...

The town of Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, in 1876, was a mixture of makeshift-tents erected by enthusiastic gold seekers, timber collectors, freight wagon owners, and owners of bawdy houses operated by some of the area’s most notorious madams. Ribbed by thick, tree-filled mountain chains and bleak valleys, the popular mining camp was the ideal destination...

  The West is a pretty big place and trying to catch up with Adrian Buckaroogirl Brannan—saddle-bronc rider, singer/songwriter, fashion designer/model, entrepreneur, and Dear Cowgirl muse—means you may catch her in the truck—if you’re lucky.  I caught up with her on a Sunday evening.  She had blocked calls and time—and was in a reflective place...

In the spring of 1875, a locomotive pulling several freight cars left Fort Leavenworth, Kansas bound for Fort Marion, Florida.  Thirty-three Cheyenne Indian prisoners were on board, only one was a woman.  Her name was Mochi, which means Buffalo Calf Woman.  She made the trip shackled and chained to her husband, a warrior named Medicine...

Interview and photographs by Ken Amorosano. Alexis Bloomer has always been a multitasker. An overachiever by nature, her entry into authorship started at an early age and was not a fluke. Today, she’s as prolific an author and writer as she is an on-air personality—whose knack for telling a good story branches across a variety...