I See By Your Outfit, Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains, Tom Lindmier & Steve Mount, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyoming. $19.95, Paperback. Photos, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. Here is [ … ]
Month: December 2018
A History of Old West Hats – Part Three
O.K., so you want to get yourself a cowboy hat. Here are some guidelines. Early cowboys spent as much as a month’s pay for their hat. Today it should not [ … ]
Munly & The Lupercalians – Sinister Gothic Country
Jay Munly’s presence can be a bit frightening at times. And with some of the Lupercalians wearing black robes and cone hats and others wearing burlap hoods at their shows, [ … ]
A History of Wild West Hats – Part Two
Strong winds tended to create problems for cowboys whether their hats were wide brimmed or narrow brimmed. Originally the brims of cowboy hats were soft so they would fold back [ … ]
Did a Dose of Dragon’s Blood Kill Buffalo Bill Cody?
Did a Dose of Dragon’s Blood Kill Buffalo Bill Cody? During the Christmas festivities of the year 1900, the great scout, showman, and Medal of Honor recipient William Frederick “Buffalo [ … ]
A History of Western Hats – Part One
In the history of Western hats it is known that the earliest cowboys were young rejects from Europe who decided to keep traveling west after they reached New York, or [ … ]
The Mysterious Private Thompson, Female Civil War Soldier
The Mysterious Private Thompson, Laura Leedy Gansler, Free Press a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., $25.00, Hardcover. It is not unusual for women to become soldiers in our day [ … ]