Ed McGivern
by Marie Hoyer From 1924 through 1940, there lived in Lewistown a humble man with no outstanding traits of face, size, or physical form. His main occupation was a sign painter, a craft he learned [...]
The Life and Legacy of Buffalo Bill
William Frederick Cody was many things in his lifetime. He was a Pony Express rider, a hunter, a soldier in the Union Army, a civilian scout during the Indian Wars, and most famously, he was a [...]
Gunfighters
Doc Holliday A decade prior to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, “Doc” John Henry Holliday was graduating with a degree in dentistry. No sooner had he set up practice in Atlanta, than he was [...]
Teddy Blue Abbott
E.C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott went on his first trail drive at the age of ten. At that time, he was living with his parents in Nebraska and helped his father herd cattle home from Texas. The Civil War [...]
Kid Curry and the Wild Bunch
Before he became a murderous outlaw, Kid Curry was a young Montana Cowboy. In 1894, he was ranching with his brother and a friend in what is now Phillips County when local lawman/miner Powell [...]
Charlie Russell in the Wild West
In 1864, Russell was born in Missouri, far from the Wild West. He came from a wealthy family that owned a manufacturing business, and though his future seemed secure in it, Russell’s interests [...]
Capturing the Spirit of the Wild West
By Hope Good The expansion of the West was inevitable. In the mid 1800s, as travel was not a simple matter, most people learned about different places from reproductions of those places through [...]