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The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
Mark J. Dworkin's articles were published in Wild West Magazine, True West Magazine and several others. [10] Dworkin served as book review editor of the Wild West History Association Journal [11] [12] [13] He wrote several Wyatt Earp related articles, and also about Virgil Earp for the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association, WOLA. [14]
The Western History Association (WHA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961 [1] at Santa Fe, New Mexico by Ray Allen Billington, et al. Included in the field of study are the American West and western Canada. The Western History Association was headquartered from 2012 to 2017 at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. [2]
"The Boyhood of Mysterious Dave Mather," Wild West History Association Journal (Vol. VIII, No. 2), April 2015. Mather, Horace E. Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather, Hartford, CT: Lockwood & Brainard, 1890. Miller, Nyle H. and Snell, Joseph W. Why the West Was Wild: A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Cowtown Personalities ...
DeMattos, Jack "The Dodge City Peace Commission Revealed," Wild West History Association Journal (Vol. VI, No. 2), April 2013. DeMattos, Jack and Parsons, Chuck. The Notorious Luke Short: Sporting Man of the Wild West, Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-57441 594-0
Robert A. Hill (born October 1943) [1] is a Jamaican historian and academic who moved to the United States in the 1970s. [2] He is Professor Emeritus of History and Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Visiting Fellow at The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.
In 1888, the Lillies launched their own Wild West show, which they called "Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West". May starred in the show as the "Champion Girl Horseback Shot of the West." Their first season was a financial disaster where they re-organized as a smaller operation called "Pawnee Bill’s Historical Wild West Indian Museum and ...
The James–Younger Gang commits the first train robbery in the history of the West by derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Line west of Adair, Iowa and stealing $3,000 from the express safe and passengers on board. [149] Dec "My Western Home", a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, is first published in an issue of the Smith County Pioneer.