Was ammunition expensive? Paul Piper Dorset — England, United Kingdom. Depends on what you were buying. A Remington 1877 catalog listed 1,000 rounds...

Author Ken Lizzio’s Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (The Countryman Press, $24.95) is a sparkling and...

In late August 1890, a detachment from the U.S. Army Quartermasters Department began the arduous task of exhuming the bodies of the soldiers in the...

They came from Texas—and not because they’d heard that Chugwater chili was better than anything you’d find in Terlingua. They arrived in Cheyenne,...

James Ford led a double life in the early 1800s.  He was a landowner, businessman and civic leader in western Kentucky and southern Illinois. He...

Is Clint Eastwood ambidextrous? Bud Haak — West St. Paul, Minnesota You’re not the first to notice Clint Eastwood is good at both left-handed and...

The late singer and entertainer Glen Campbell made his mark on Westerns when he starred as Texas Ranger La Boeuf in 1969’s “True Grit.”   Director...

Josiah “Joe” Hazen is best known for leading a posse that chased the Wild Bunch after the gang robbed a Union Pacific train near Wilcox, Wyoming, in...

Sam Mason was a robber and killer in post-Revolution America, roaming the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers with a gang of cutthroats.  Mason was one of...

In the old days they used to say that anyone who visited the Grand Canyon and didn’t meet the great windjammer, Captain John Hance had missed an...