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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…

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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….

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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…

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April 5, 2024

The Harry Yount Enigma: Yellowstone’s First Park Ranger

Buried among the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and,…

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November 16, 2023

“There wasn’t any make-believe or made-up stuff:” the Western Work of James Bama

Don Schmalz was riding up Trout Creek. The year was 1973. The wind was coming straight out of the north and it…

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A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer points a rifle at a mounted man, whose hands are up. Charles M. Russell (1864-1926). "When Law Dulls the Edge of Chance," 1915. Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches. Gift of William E. Weiss. 28.78
July 26, 2023

Charlie Russell’s Tough Year

1917 was a tough year for Charlie Russell. His good buddy, bullwhacker Johnny Matheson, was dying. Johnny ran the last horse-drawn freight…

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