Studying the gunfighters, lawmen, and outlaws of the Old West one encounters some shootouts that were unavoidable. Some were justified...

The country where I live in far West Texas has the only mountains in the state. They run from the Big Bend of the Rio Grande all the way...

Well friends, once again the SHOT Show has flown by! What starts out as “an entire week” is gone in the blink of an eye. The best part is...

Any way you’d want to look at it, Rafael “Red” Lopez was a bad dude. Border legend has it that he was from the Mexican state of Coahuila...

Jack Taylor spotted them the minute he left his shop and started down towards the Post Office. Years ago, Captain Wright had told him to...

Instead of El Paso, this story actually starts in southeast New Mexico near a town called Eddy, now known as Carlsbad. And the central...

Folks can talk all they want about how tough the old west towns of Dodge City, Tombstone, and others were, my pick for the toughest...