Fort Dodge Fort Museum
photo by the author
Welcome to CSL&OH.A.
Howdy, partners! Welcome to the Wild West History Blog— I hope you'll ride the trail or the train with us into the real American frontier.
Saddle up for tales of dusty cattle towns, railroad towns, gold-rush boom camps, lawless borderlands, and wide-open plains. We’ll walk Western towns, boardwalks, stand at the OK Corral, follow the Chisholm Trail, and trace the railroads that bound a nation.
No Hollywood gloss here—just the grit drawn from diaries, court records, old newspapers, and fresh scholarship. Meet the true Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Soldiers, Native nations, and trailblazing women who ran ranches and saloons.
Whether you love Western lore or just crave authentic frontier stories, pull up a chair by the campfire. New posts on sheriffs, outlaws, cattle barons, and pioneers drop regularly.
Grab your hat—let’s ride. The Wild West awaits.
About the
Author
Gene Stevens Is a local historian, reenactor and writer, who has studied and written about frontier history, covering the Old Northwest Territory, the Illinois territory and expansion into western Iowa. He has memberships with the John Wayne Birthplace Society, the Western Writers of American and he is the founder of the Central States Lawman and Outlaws Historic Association.
His books include, Last Stand at Old Man's Creek, Red Flag of Defiance, Navy Signalman in Their Own Words, The Battle of Apple River Fort, A Fiendish Crime the story of the first train robbery in the west, and the Author of the Dusty Trails of the Old West Anthology. He has traveled the country, studied and reenacted the American civil war, the Black Hawk war and wild west periods of American history.
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