Karen Harris, Author at OldWest https://www.oldwest.org/author/karen-harris/ American West History & Wild West Legends Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:05:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.oldwest.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-OW-Favicon-1-150x150.jpg Karen Harris, Author at OldWest https://www.oldwest.org/author/karen-harris/ 32 32 The Reality of Dying of Consumption in the Old West https://www.oldwest.org/dying-of-consumption-old-west/ https://www.oldwest.org/dying-of-consumption-old-west/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:14:53 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=6890 dying of consumption old west

If you could hop into a DeLorean time machine and go back to an Old West saloon, one…

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In the last half of the 1800s, the bustling port town of San Francisco, which grew out of…

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If you are a fan of the Paramount+ series Yellowstone (and who isn’t?), you were probably thrilled when…

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Come to think of it, Utah would be a great place to hide something. First, it is vast.…

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Even if all you had to go on was what you learned in movies, you probably know that…

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Have you ever watched the 1972 Western movie Jeremiah Johnson, starring Robert Redford as the title character? Good…

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]]> https://www.oldwest.org/liver-eating-johnson-facts/feed/ 0 The Wives of Wyatt Earp, from Aurilla Sutherland to Sadie Marcus https://www.oldwest.org/wives-of-wyatt-earp/ https://www.oldwest.org/wives-of-wyatt-earp/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:57:00 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=4018 wives of wyatt earp

Wyatt Earp spent his Old West career walking the fine line between lawman and outlaw, so it should…

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William “Curly Bill” Brocius was only on Arizona’s Old West scene for a little more than three years,…

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The Old West had a reputation for being a lawless place and time. With all the gun-toting, cattle…

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The vast majority of the settlers, trappers, prospectors, and outlaws of the Old West were men. Lonely, horny men.

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Folks in the Old West may have been rough, dirty, and trigger-happy, but that doesn’t mean they were…

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From the Sphinx of ancient Egypt to the dragons of China and the Minotaur of ancient Greece, one…

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