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Old West Book Review: Riding Lucifer’s Line
Retired lawman and veteran writer of more than a dozen non-fiction books about Old West history, Bob Alexander again writes a hard-hitting book. Riding Lucifer’s Line is a collection of 24 profiles about Texas Rangers who lost their lives on the Mexico-Texas border known as “Lucifer’s Line.” The chosen time period covers the last quarter […]
Old West Book Review: Chronicling the West For Harper’s
Chronicling the West For Harper’s. This fascinating book tells the story of two French artists, Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier who were employed in 1873 by Harper’s Magazine to travel for one year across the great American frontier to chronicle immigrant migration. The men began in New York City and wound their way to San […]
SAMUEL COLT
Samuel Colt’s single action revolver, known as the “peacemaker” is a staple to any story about the Old West. But chances are we wouldn’t have ever heard of Colt had it not been for an event that took place on January 4, 1847. As the story goes in 1830, on a sea voyage to Singapore, […]
A TOWN TREED
Hunters are known to tree a mountain lion or a bear now and then, but in 1859, a gang of thugs treed a whole town. That’s right, a whole town. It was the mid 1800’s. Anglos from other parts of the United States were coming to Texas in groves, and taking over land previously owned […]
SEQUOHAH
The subject of today’s story was considered an ingenious natural mechanic…and his invention changed the life of his people forever. Sequohah, born in 1760 in Tennessee, grew up among his mother’s people, the Cherokee. He became a metal craftsman, making beautiful silver jewelry. As a young man he joined the Cherokee volunteers who joined Andrew […]
