Wild West History

Join me on my travels through the small towns and ghost towns, museums and libraries of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado as I explore the history, legends, and tall tales of the American Southwest.

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Lola Montez: Beauty and Song in the Old West

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Lola Montez (de:Gouache by Carl Buchner, 1847. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. Lola Montez is known as the "first tabloid c...

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Rocky Mountain Locust: The Plague of the Pioneers

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Photo by Darla Sue Dollman. I believe this was also a locust. "No matter what they came to, they went right on. They were crawl...

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Colorado's Deadliest Floods

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You may have noticed fewer posts over the past year. I've been working on a history book about flooding in Colorado. Colorado...

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Colorado's Deadliest Floods by Darla Sue Dollman

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Saturday, January 7, 2017

The Oregonian, Thomas Dryer, Henry Pittock, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood

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Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon. Public domain. Courtesy of Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory. Released into public domain ...

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Employment Opportunities for Women in the Old West

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Judy Garland from a scene in the movie The Harvey Girls, 1946. Public domain. The first time I saw Judy Garland in a film was in Th...

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Divorce in the American Old West

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Engagement Rings. Photo by Piotr Frydecki . Although the days of the American Old West ran concurrently with the Victorian Era, and...

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Darla Sue Dollman: Darla Sue Dollman is the author of "Colorado's Deadliest Floods," now available through History Press Library Editions. She has a BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University where she taught creative writing, literature, composition, and first-year introductory courses. She also taught Composition courses at the University of Northern Colorado and Technical Business Writing at Aims Community College. She has 42 years experience as a freelance investigative journalist, staff journalist, assistant editor and editor. Her articles can also be found in The Christian Science Monitor, History Magazine, Dezert Magazine and other publications.

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