DRY BONES

In 1875, Hidetown and Tascosa, in the Texas Panhandle, were known as the Sodom and Gomorrah of the plains. With 13 saloons and 500 prostitutes in Hidetown, and a slightly lesser number in Tascosa, sin was a thriving business. The nearest law was two hundred miles to the south, so the law of the Panhandle belonged to the man who could draw his Colt the fastest and shoot the straightest.
Hunters slaughtered millions of buffalo from 1865 to 1875, taking only their hides, leaving the bones to b...