Western Fictioneers

  Chester Greenwood supposedly had larger than normal ears. He enjoyed ice skating at his home in Farmington, Maine, but didn’t enjoy the co...

 Post (C) Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw This year is Colorado's 150th Anniversary of statehood. This is a first ...

Today is Friday the 13 th ,  but we’re not going to talk about luck, good or bad. Instead, today marks the first daytime, peacetime bank rob...

Post by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw Try saying sesquisemiquincentennial three times really fast. Of course, it mea...

  January 9 is a day with two notable “firsts.” In 1847, the first newspaper in Yerba Buena,   The California Star,   was published by Samue...

Post by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw  2025 is about to be a scene in the rearview mirror. Here is a look back at th...

  On December 12, 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant     and his wife Julia hosted the very first official state dinner. The guest was the kin...

  Howdy Everyone,  I hope you are all doing well!   Recently I have heard a lot of talk about how the western needs to push into different g...

Post (c) by Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw We all encounter the unexpected. Usually fun, sometimes irritating, and oc...

  This is not entirely Old West, but it’s interesting, nonetheless. On November 14, 1889,   New York World journalist Nellie Bly began a rou...