In John Wayne’s last movie, The Shootist (1976), based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout, the Duke’s character, J.B. Books, packed an engraved pair...

The Aztec Land & Cattle Company—better known as the Hashknife Outfit (after a brand it acquired)—became a force in Arizona in the mid 1880s....

Butch Cassidy was born Robert LeRoy Parker on April 13th, 1866, in Beaver, Utah to a good Mormon family. A turning point in his life came when the...

How did frontier ladies curl their hair? Carson Mell Burbank, California Frontier ladies who curled their hair usually wore Victorian rag curls....

Historian Stuart Rosebrook argues the birthplace of the cowboy is in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria in North Africa, where the “...Zeneta Berber...

If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.” A few years ago the late author Jack Koblas told me a poignant...

The American West has intrigued international audiences since the first European explorers brought back stories, treasures, artifacts and, most...

John Braden was a stagecoach driver for decades—and a hero in the last act of his life.  Braden was living in Albuquerque in 1896. He was driving a...

Colorado Charlie Utter (right in above photo) is best known as Wild Bill Hickok’s friend, the man who made sure he was buried proper in Deadwood,...

After the death of his beloved wife Eliza from small pox, John Slaughter ex-Confederate soldier and ex-Texas Ranger, now ranching in Cochise County,...