The Eternal Romanticization of Bonnie and Clyde
The Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum shows how the two robbed banks and killed people, loved each other and died young
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Denver’s Western Saloons Resembled English, Irish Pubs
By RICH GRANT People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years at a variety of taverns, ale houses, coaching inns and grog shops, but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. In the 1700s, to counter distilled spirits imported from Ireland and Scotland, England encouraged distilling corn
Read moreOn the Heels of Billy the Kid
By RICH GRANT It’s hard to pinpoint the attraction of Billy the Kid. Viewed in one light, he was probably a psychopath who gunned down a sheriff and two (maybe three) deputies in cold blood, as well as some other assorted enemies. He was an outlaw, a rustler, a hired gun and a murderer, who was himself shot dead at
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