• Board Nominations Open

    Anyone wishing to nominate a member in good standing for the WWHA Board, or to nominate yourself, please download the nomination form and send to Marshall Trimble, Chairman of the nominating Committee.

  • Feb/Apr Journal Index

    The 2012 Journal Index is now available with February and April references.

  • New History Colorado Center

    The new History Colorado Center (formally the Colorado Historical Society) celebrated their Grand Opening on Saturday April 28, 2012. For details visit historycoloradocenter.org.

  • Boise Meeting Dates

    The WWHA Board of Directors and 2013 Roundup Chairman Michael Youngman would like to announce the dates of the Boise, Idaho meeting as July 10-13, 2013. The host hotel will be the Riverside. Denver, Colorado has been selected as the site of WWHA's 2014 Roundup.

  • New WWHA PR Chairman

    Rob Bandhauer of Denver Colorado, is the new Public Relations Chairman for WWHA.

    Rob can be reached at:  rlbindenver@yahoo.com

    -or- 303 525 0210.

  • WWHA Facebook Page

    Be sure to check out WWHA's Facebook page. There is a lot of activity between members posting old photos, gun talk, books and news about WWHA.

  • New Book Review

  • Billy the Kid Auction Pix

  • Buffalo Bill Center Exhibit

    The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, one of the premier western history museums in America, has completed the installation of the "GALLERY OF GUNFIGHTERS" exhibit.

  • John Boessenecker Honored

    True West magazine recently named WWHA member John Boessenecker, "Best Nonfiction Writer of 2011" for Bandido; and Bandido has been named by Western Writers of America as a finalist for the Spur award in the Best Western Nonfiction Biography category.

5th Annual WWHA Roundup

Prescott, Arizona

August 1-4, 2012

 

 

Official Roundup Registration Form

 

Tentative Schedule

(all events at Prescott Resort, unless noted otherwise)

 

Prescott Resort, www.prescottresort.com, 1-800-967-4637

 

Wednesday, August 1

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Board Meeting

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration in lobby

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Vendor Set-up

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Opening Reception

 

Thursday, August 2

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Vendor Set-up

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration

8:30 - Opening ceremonies, Color Guard, Arizona Rough Riders; Mayor Marlin Kuykendall

9:00 - Bill O'Neal "Gunfights of The Arizona Rangers"

9:35 - Charlie Herner "Arizona Rough Riders"

10:10 - Morning break and visit vendors

10:30 - John Langellier "Indian Scouts in Arizona"

11:05 - Melissa Ruffner "Yavapai County Sheriff George Ruffner"

11:40 - Awards luncheon

1:00 p.m. - Roy Young "The U.S. Marshals of Arizona Territory - Brief Biographies"

1:35 - Anne Collier "'Big Nose' Kate and Mary Cummings: Same Person, Different Lives.  How Mary Horony Cummings Survived in an Era of Limitations."

2:10 - Erik Wright "An Arizona Trifecta: The Murderers of James Leavy"

2:40 - Afternoon announcements and visit vendors

2:45 - Rest of afternoon free

7:00 - "An Evening With..." (Honoree to be announced)

 

Friday, August 3rd

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Vendor Set-up

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration

8:30 a.m. - Announcements

8:40 - 8th presentation

9:15 - 9th presentation

9:50 - Morning break and visit vendors

10:30 - Bob Palmquist "Preludes to Legend: The Prescott Years of John H. Behan and Virgil W. Earp"

11:05 - 11th Presentation

11:40 - Announcements and visit vendors

12:00 p.m. - Lunch on your own

1:30 - Meet at Sharlot Hall Museum for tours, book signings, one-act plays: Jody Drake (Sharlot Hall), Wyatt Earp (Wyatt Earp)

5:00 - Evening free

7:00 - Panel Discussion (Topic to be determined)

 

Saturday, August 4th

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Vendor Set-up

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration

8:30 a.m. -Announcements and Annual WWHA Business Meeting

8:45 - "The Last Roundup" - WWHA Memorials

9:00 - Lee Hanchett "The Black Canyon Stagecoach Robberies"

9:35 - 13th presentation

10:10 - Morning break and visit vendors

10:30 - Jinx Pyle "The Pleasant Valley War"

11:05 - Jayne Peace Pyle "Women of the Pleasant Valley War"

11:40 - Announcements and visit vendors

12:00 p.m. - Lunch on your own and afternoon free

12:30 - 2:00 - Vendor's dismantle, silent auction begins set-up

5:30 - Reception, Cash Bar, Silent auction opens

6:30 - Annual Banquet, entertainment, President's awards, live auction, and more

8:30 - Special Activities

 

 

Resort Reservations 1-800-967-4637

Ask for Wild West History Association rates or Group #G973

Prescott Roundup Schedule

The WWHA welcomes you

"But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind."