The trigger-happy cowboy, honorable yet ill-tempered, jovial and murderous at the same time, is no modern invention. Even people of the contemporary Wild West revered and feared wild tales of roughnecked gunslingers, as this 1881 Wyoming newspaper article demonstrates. I love digging through old newspapers - they are neat timecapsules of an era long gone … Continue reading The Cowboys (Laramie Weekly Sentinel, August 20, 1881) →