Eric Rossborough
April 30, 2026
A Boy Named Pearl
Marbles, Mischief, and a Restless Boy One day during recess, Pearl Gray dared another boy to a game of marbles. Bud Crub…
March 4, 2026
Brida Gafford: The Wild Life of a Rodeo Superstar
“So they let you dress up like a cowgirl and when you say “I’m going to be a cowgirl when I grow…
August 13, 2025
A Broadway Guy: the Second Life of Bat Masterson
When Bat Masterson and his brother Ed heard of a job building a railroad grade in the summer of 1872, they took…
April 21, 2025
Philip R. Goodwin, or, A Child Prodigy Runs Afoul of the 20th Century
It was December, and I had just walked into the shelving room of the Madison, Wisconsin, Public Library. My job. The room…
February 20, 2025
The Reinvention of Mickey Cochrane
At night, when he was a kid, Mike Cochrane would practice running down Mt. Prospect Street in his hometown of Bridgewater, Massachusetts….
May 17, 2024
Advertising the Frontier Myth: Poster Art of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
In 1835, P.T. Barnum bought a human being. Barnum saw an ad in the Pennsylvania Inquirer. Joice Heth, an elderly African-American, was…