Join the town of Tucumcari for the 3rd Annual Tucumcari Rawhide Days. A celebration of Tucumcari's frontier heritage and the Rawhide TV series...
In Southeast Montana, Big Sky Meets Big Adventure
Out here, in Southeast Montana, find yourself miles away from ordinary and smack-dab in the middle of your own Western adventure. Cowboys still ride...
A Belle of Old Fort Sumner
Walter Noble Burns was onto something. A 56-year-old Chicago journalist, Burns had become intrigued by a long-dead and largely forgotten outlaw...
Custer’s Conspirator
A new officer joined the 7th Cavalry in the summer of 1869, bringing with him a background that even today seems the stuff of fiction,” Charles K....
The Perils of Pauline
Pauline Cushman was an actress who became a celebrated spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a hotel proprietress, the wife of a sheriff and...
The Queen Rules
Ann Bassett was quite the woman, running a ranch in northwest Colorado around the turn of the century. She was involved in the range wars. She was...
Reality Cowboy Stars
This April 26, Chris “Booger” Brown, Cody Harris and Bubba Thompson saddle up for their third season of INSP’s The Cowboy Way—Alabama, the most...
Rex Allen
They call him the “Last of the Silver Screen Cowboys.” They might have added he was also the only one of the famous singing cowboys who could lay...
What did Cowboys Typically Eat on a Cattle Drive?
What did cowboys typically eat on a cattle drive? Wes Shinn Saratoga Springs, New York Around 3 a.m., hours before cowhands climbed out of their...
An Electric Dream Burns Out
Splendiferous. That sums up the opulence of the 1890 G.W. Frank House in Kearney, Nebraska—the showplace of a man who promoted this piece of the...
Bigger Than the O.K. Corral
The Tascosa Gunfight of 1886 isn’t well-remembered today. It involved two factions—cowboys of the LS Ranch versus men in smaller cattle operations....
Ordeal in The Desert
On the outskirts of Casa Grande, along what used to be the main highway between Tucson and Phoenix stands a simple, concrete monument surrounded by...