The West conjures images: sky-touching-earth horizons, uncharted wilderness, turbulent rivers, an unbounded Milky Way flung across the heavens....

“Lord” Darrell Duppa was an adventurer, world traveler, scholar and gifted elocutionist. He wasn’t really a lord but the folks around Phoenix in the...

  Charles Stevens was often cast as Native Americans or Mexicans in movies and television in a career that stretched from 1915 to 1961.  He...

He was known as one of the bravest of Geronimo’s warriors, a sharpshooter who never wasted a bullet. He also helped other warriors get their man—Juh...

Joseph Lee Heywood is considered the hero of Northfield, MN, the man who bluffed the James-Younger Gang out of emptying the First National Bank of...

Sure ’nuff cowboy songs and stories from a sure ’nuff cowboy—does it get any better than that? Edited by Charles Seeman, executive director emeritus...

How often were post offices robbed on the frontier? Gerald Jantzen - Okeene, Oklahoma Robbing a post office wasn’t common in the Old West—although...

One of the most important aspects of handgun-shooting is having a proper grip. Too loose a hold causes the gun to jump or roll in your hand, not to...

Raised in Detroit, Michigan, and retired from teaching at the American University in Washington, D.C., Bob Love found himself linked to the West’s...

In Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums (University of Oklahoma Press, $32.95), Bruce Gleason has produced an excellent volume on the history of...