Equipping Saints • Engaging Culture • Examining Claims
Image: Enhanced and colorized photo from the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photograph by E.L.Goff. (Public Domain). He Could Not Read His Warrants — and He Never Got the Wrong Man ❦ ❖ ❦ Prologue: A Tramp on the Red River Road On a worn road in the…
The Tangled Life and Tall Tales of Raymond Hatfield Gardner — “Arizona Bill” (1845–1940) ❖ ————❖———— ❖ On a gray winter morning in 1940, an old man lay dying in the charity ward of a San Antonio hospital. He had no money, no verifiable family, and, the Army insisted, no record of ever having served….
The Improbable Life of Phoebe Couzins — Lawyer, Lawwoman, and the West’s Unlikeliest Pioneer 1842 – 1913 ❦ ❖ ❦ A Star Pinned to a Silent Blouse On a raw December morning in 1913, six mourners gathered at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis to bury a woman the nation had once strained to hear. Inside…
The True Story of the Hanging Judge Who Never Hanged Anyone A Saloon on the Edge of the Map Picture the place first, because the place explains the man. Three hundred miles of the Chihuahuan Desert lie between San Antonio and El Paso, and somewhere out in the middle of that emptiness, the Pecos River…
The sun beat down mercilessly on the Arizona Territory in the summer of 1878, casting long shadows across the dusty trails that connected the scattered settlements of the Southwest. For travelers along these routes, the journey was arduous enough without the added fear of the territory’s most notorious stage robber—a man known to all as…