Search Results for: New Mexico
Chuckwagon: Chocolate Cowboy Caramels
Below is a candy recipe from the October 23, 1893 Albuquerque Evening Citizen. Chocolate Cowboy Caramels – boil together a pound of white sugar, a quarter of a pound of chocolate, four tablespoons of molasses, a cup of sweet milk, and apiece of butter as big as a walnut. When it will harden in water, […]
Old West Book Review: Villa Lobos
Villa Lobos, Michael Zimmer, Five Star Publishing, $25.95, Hardcover, Western Fiction. Author Michael Zimmer has written an action-packed, fast-paced western novel that will appeal to readers thirsty for tough adventure tales about the Old West. Sit back, read, and have fun with it, but don’t try to spend much time trying to figure out who […]
Old West Book Review: The Ranger Ideal, Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame
The Ranger Ideal, Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, Volume 1, Darren L. Ivey, University of North Texas press $39.95, Cloth. 672 p.p., Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. For anyone interested in the history of the Texas Rangers, this book is a must read. It is the first of a three-book series telling about the […]
Texas Ranger Frank Jones
Born in Austin, Texas in 1856, Frank Jones joined the Texas Rangers at the age of 17. He saw his first action when he and two other Rangers were sent after some Mexican horse thieves. In the process, the horse thieves ambushed the Rangers. Frank’s two companions were immediately taken out, but Frank was able […]
Old West Book Review: They Called Him Buckskin Frank
They Called Him Buckskin Frank, Jack Demattos an Chuck Parsons, University of North Texas Press, $29.95, Cloth, Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. The name Buckskin Frank Leslie seems always to appear in the old Tombstone stories. Doc Holliday the Earps, Johnny Ringo and some others had some association with him, but he was always on the […]
