Wild West

Wild West Magazine presents the great American frontier from its beginnings to today. America’s western frontier has been a vital part of the country’s myths and reality, from the earliest exploration beyond the territory of the first colonies, to the wide expanses of the western prairies and deserts. Experience the old west and cowboys and Indians from top historical writers. Wild West brings to life the fascinating history, lore and culture of the great American frontier.

When Earp Met Hearst

Wild West

Cowboy Archaeologist

10 Favorite Living Western Artists

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Hardly Over the Hill • EMMY-WINNING DIRECTOR WALTER HILL TALKS WESTERN MOVIES AND HISTORY

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A Strong-willed Texas Scout

Lest Ye Be Judged • BEFORE RESIGNING IN DISGRACE, FEDERAL JUDGE WILLIAM STORY PRECEDED THE MORE CELEBRATED ‘HANGING JUDGE’ ISAAC PARKER IN ARKANSAS’ WESTERN DISTRICT

Happy Christmas 1871! • PROPER ENGLISHWOMAN ROSE GEORGINA KINGSLEY REFLECTED ON THAT YEAR’S YULETIDE AMID DENVER SOCIETY

The Widow Who Would Be Cattle Queen • AFTER HER HUSBAND’S UNTIMELY DEATH, YETTA KOHN JOINED FORCES WITH HER SONS AND DAUGHTER TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS IN NEW MEXICO TERRITORY

A Legacy of Historical Realism • COVID MAY HAVE CLAIMED MONTANA ARTIST JERRY CRANDALL, BUT HIS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE WORKS RIDE ON

Mission Impossible in California • IN THE 1830S MEXICO DECREED LANDS ONCE OWNED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP—BUT FEW MISSION INDIANS BENEFITED

How Deadly Was Kid Curry? • UNDER THAT ALIAS OUTLAW HARVEY LOGAN GAINED INFAMY, BUT WHETHER HE WAS THE ‘DEADLIEST’ MEMBER OF THE WILD BUNCH IS DEBATABLE

Similar Bunch, Two Gangs

‘The Deer Is Like Money’ • THE REINDEER HERDING INDUSTRY IN FAR NORTHWEST ALASKA PROVED LUCRATIVE FOR A TIME, BUT ONLY FOR A VERY FEW

Deer Santa

The Scout Who Straddled Two Worlds • HALF BLOOD JOHNNIE BRUGUIER SERVED THE ARMY WELL—BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER FACING CHARGES OF MURDER

Trouble in Zion • ORDERED TO UTAH TERRITORY IN 1854 TO BRING UTE MURDERERS TO JUSTICE, AN ARMY COLUMN VERY NEARLY SPARKED WAR WITH THEIR MORMON HOSTS

A Peace Officer Murdered for Booze • A NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ROSE UP IN RAGE AND SORROW AS ITS NEWSPAPER CONDEMNED ‘THE MOST ATROCIOUS CRIME’ IN COUNTY HISTORY

Presumed Innocent?

An Inside Perspective

The Buffalo-Bone Cane Mystery • WYATT EARP PROTECTED GEORGE HEARST FROM COWBOYS, AND THE MINING MAGNATE REWARDED HIM WITH A WALKING STICK—OR DID THEY?

There’ll Be a Caterwauling in the Old Town Tonight • WHEN THE WEST WAS WILD, FERAL CATS RAISED FAR MORE OF A NOCTURNAL RUCKUS THAN DID THE SALOON CROWD

Where Lonesome Dove Came to Roost • FANS OF THE POPULAR 1989 WESTERN MINISERIES MUST VISIT ITS PRODUCTION ARCHIVES AT TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN MARCOS

Black Bart’s Double-Barrels • THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYMAN BRANDISHED—THOUGH NEVER FIRED—BREECH-AND MUZZLE-LOADING DOUBLE-BARRELED SHOTGUNS

Hawkinsville, Colorado • THOUGH ABSENT FROM MOST PERIOD MAPS, THIS SIDE-CANYON SETTLEMENT PROVED A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF RICH GOLD ORE

Must See, Must Read • JOHNNY D. BOGGS’ FAVORITE UNSUNG NONFICTION BOOKS AND FILMS

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