western history

  The mesmerized onlookers lining the dusty streets in Denver, Colorado, in 1913 were treated to a grand Wild West entourage.  The crowd cheered as Buffalo Bill proudly led his cast and crew down the thoroughfare toward the parade field where they would be performing.  The lengthy caravan consisted of 181 horses, eighteen buffalo, elk,...

Wild Bill Hickok had many female admirers in his lifetime, but Agnes Lake Thatcher was the only woman who completely captured his heart.  The man known as the “deadliest pistolero in the Old West” often declared to his friends that he preferred being a bachelor.  It was a surprise to many when he married a...