Search Results for: Montana
Cattle Industry Decimated
By the mid 1880’s the cattle industry was going wild. Speculators were overstocking the grazing ranges of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. And with several mild winters they were also saving money by not putting up feed for wintertime. The summer of 1886 was a dry one. By autumn the range was almost barren of grass… […]
Sitting Bull Goes to Canada
After the defeat of Custer in 1876, realizing there would be retaliations, the Indians broke up into smaller bands so they could move faster and not be easily found. But many of the bands were tracked down, and relocated to reservations. Sitting Bull, in command of the western party, took his people to Montana, and […]
Thomas Bowe
Thomas Bowe was a slightly built man, who stood about 5 foot 6 inches. He had a hair trigger, both personally and gun-wise. With a mysterious background that supposedly included murder and stagecoach robbery, Thomas showed up in Silver City, New Mexico during the winter of 1874. In Ward’s […]
Old West Book Review: Dark Territory, A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western
Dark Territory, A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western, Terrence McCauley, Pinnacle Books, $7.99, Paperback. Western fiction. This second book in the Aaron Mackey series finds Mackey once again keeping law and order in his old Montana home town of Dover Station. This time a group of investors have descended upon the town with an eye on […]
Old West Book Review: Where the Bullets Fly, A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western
Where the Bullets Fly, A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western, Terrence McCauley, Pinnacle Books, $7.99, Paperback. Western fiction. The first book in the Sheriff Aaron Mackey series, this story introduces readers to Aaron Mackey, the sheriff of Dover Station in Montana Territory. Mackey is an ex- cavalry officer, now sheriff. His deputy is a black man […]
