Sorry gang! I know you don't tune in to a lamebrained blog like this to actually learn stuff , but sometimes this weird mood comes up...

Today we pay homage to "America's Most Colorful Cavalry Leader," also known as Yellow Hair, Fanny, Autie, Iron Butt and Son...

Author Glenn Boyer (who headed for the last round-up in February) devoted about thirty years of his life to Earp scholarship, writing man...

This Bat book by Richard O'Conner has been around forever, or at least since 1958, when this paperback was published. I’ve always been t...

If this companion volume to Great Gunfighters and Great Lawmen were reprinted today, it would undoubtedly be Women of the West Gone Wild ....

Just returned from a trip down the Oregon Coast to Lincoln City. I always look forward to Lincoln City because that, as near as I can tell, ...

OK, I’ll admit I’d never heard of Old West badman Soapy Smith. My first reaction was, Wasn’t that an old comic strip character? But no, I w...

Over the last 175 years, some of the Almanack ’s old files, including copies of many past issues, have been destroyed due to fire, flood, ea...

Like any pennywise publication, the Almanack will occasionally feature “encore presentations” (yeah, okay, they’re reprints ) from our illu...