OldWest https://www.oldwest.org/ American West History & Wild West Legends Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:11:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.oldwest.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-OW-Favicon-1-150x150.jpg OldWest https://www.oldwest.org/ 32 32 Olive Oatman: Tattooed Captive of the Frontier https://www.oldwest.org/olive-oatman-captive/ https://www.oldwest.org/olive-oatman-captive/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:28:40 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=7228 olive oatman

In the summer of 1850, the Oatman family headed west with visions of a promised land in the…

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On July 1, 1896, five young men, chained and dressed in black, walked to the gallows at Fort…

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Traditional American tattoos may be rooted in the open seas of the 1800s, but vast Western landscapes inspired…

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The American cowboy occupies a revered position in history, folklore, and popular culture. The most famous figures of…

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Dozens of actors have played and voiced the Lone Ranger since 1933, but none embodied the aura of…

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]]> https://www.oldwest.org/clayton-moore/feed/ 5 The Reality of Dying of Consumption in the Old West https://www.oldwest.org/dying-of-consumption-old-west/ https://www.oldwest.org/dying-of-consumption-old-west/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:14:53 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=6890 dying of consumption old west

If you could hop into a DeLorean time machine and go back to an Old West saloon, one…

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Netflix might not have the deepest Western library, but it does offer refreshing takes on some of the…

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In the last half of the 1800s, the bustling port town of San Francisco, which grew out of…

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If you are a fan of the Paramount+ series Yellowstone (and who isn’t?), you were probably thrilled when…

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When Josephine Marcus Earp died in Los Angeles on December 19, 1944, her small memorial attracted little attention…

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Come to think of it, Utah would be a great place to hide something. First, it is vast.…

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The dramatic storyline in Tombstone may seem pulled straight from a Ned Buntline dime novel, but its script…

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