Category: Keeping the peace, frontier style

This photo, found at Old Prisons, is credited as follows: A strap-iron cage jail at Martinsdale, Montana. Photo montanapictures.net In the Eagle Rock of my new historical fiction novel Cat’s Cafe, the Clancy Clan plagues the town with unrestrained theft and intimidation, Sheriff Zane Gunther is the ineffectual face of the law, and the real… Continue reading 1870s Law and Order, local lockups →

We found this great Ken Petts watercolor for sale at https://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_PettsHoldUpLL.html, with the title Henry Plummer Sheriff and Outlaw. Local lawmen and the U.S. Marshals Service Is Zane Gunther crazy? Possibly. At the very best, he lacks all sense of social propriety and personal responsibility ~ and could use a good speech teacher.  With that,… Continue reading Law and order, sheriffs and marshals →

Here is one beguiling beauty and her early concealed carry firearm of choice, the 1849 Colt pocket model. View this photo and many others in Phil Spangenberger's article "Twelve Guns That Tamed the Wild West" at True West Magazine here. For a fascinating look at historic firearms through the decades, visit the National Firearms Museum… Continue reading 1870s Law and Order, firearms →