Here are links to some of J.R.'s Wild West articles online:

Crush's Crash Was a Monster Smash (June, 2010)

Dodge City’s Grand Bullfight (October, 2007)

Faro: Favorite Gambling Game of the Frontier (October, 1996)
 

Here are clips of several of J.R.'s other Wild West articles

Fireworks in the Old House Saloon (October, 2007) – A hot-headed cowboy and a no-nonsense gambler had no clue their 1884 shootout in a Dodge City drinkery would help tame “the wickedest little city in America.”

Dodge City’s Grand Bullfight (October, 2007) – What other town would have the gumption to host the first organized Mexican bullfight on U.S. soil?

Fiddler Turned Failed Ax Murderer (October, 2007) – Thankfully, not every family tree has an ax murderer hiding among its branches. J.R.'s does – almost.

Faro: One Business That Was Mainly Monkey Business (August, 2008) – One old-time gambler wrote that “A man would act more rationally and correctly to burn his money than to bet it on faro.” Here’s why.

Buffalo Jones Killed Many Buffalo, But Then Became a Preservationist (February, 2009) – Besides his work with bison, Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones was a founder and early mayor of Garden City, Kansas. J.R.'s dad and three of his siblings were born in Garden, so this fellow’s colorful story holds more than a little personal interest.

Skin and Bones; the Plains Buffalo Trades Flourished (February, 2009) – Just when it seemed the near-extinct buffalo had given its all to the hide trade, a few enterprising souls found there was money in the big woolies yet.