• Interview with Author John W. Davis

  Author and attorney John W. Davis turns a legal eye to the people and events at the center of the 1892 Johnson County War.

• Glen Swanson - Art of the West

  Glen Swanson, sculptor and avid Custeriana collector, has created a sculpture of Custer as he appeared on the eve of his Last Stand on the Little Bighorn.

• Nocona's Raid and Cynthia Ann Parker's Recapture

  Taken by Comanches at age 9 in 1836, Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured by whites nearly 24 years later when she returned to Texas with a raiding party led by her Indian husband.

• Teddy Roosevelt's Ride to Recovery

  As a young man, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to the Dakota Badlands to write, raise cattle and grieve heavy personal losses. He also laid the foundation of his presidency.

• Wild West Magazine Article Wins Spur Award

  Roger Di Silvestro won a coveted Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his nonfiction article about Theodore Roosevelt, “Teddy’s Ride to Recovery,” which appeared in the October 2009 Wild West magazine.

• Crush's Locomotive Crash Was a Monster Smash

  In the summer of 1896, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway charged its passenger agent William George Crush with boosting revenues. His unlikely solution: To stage a head-on train wreck and charge the public to watch.

• Prix de West - Art of the West

  Tom Browning's oil The Dawn of a New Day won the Purchase Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's 2009 Prix de West art show and sale in Oklahoma City.

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