In the 1960s, Joe Beeler rode his horse daily on a six-mile trip to his mailbox from his home on Oklahoma’s Quapaw Reservation. He hunted. And he...

During the years around 1900 a slippery outlaw named Rufus Nephew aka “Climax Jim” managed to foil lawmen again and again. One time he was indicted...

On a blustery October day in 1881 Tombstone, the Earp brothers—Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan—joined Doc Holliday in an attempt to disarm several cowboys....

James B. Hume’s father had plans for the boy—he would farm the family land in northern Indiana. But when Hume became a man, he had other ideas and...

Yuma, Arizona’s “attic” was all over town—60 years of historical records, photographs and family histories dating as far back as pre-1853 Gadsden...

Frank Canton, a feared killer and lawman, got his comeuppance in the early 1900s. He was drunk at the saloon at the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, WY....

“He will sigh to lose his friend, groan if his wife dies, but if his dog is lost by death, his grief is overwhelming.” That's how a 19th Century...

Could pioneers identify a person by the horse he was riding? Mary Zaborowski Houston, Texas Recognizing a horse came second nature to pioneers. One...

John Robert Baylor was an ambitious man, one who wanted position and power and recognition. He had shown that many times over between his move to...

Felix Vinatieri was the band leader of the 7th Cavalry, and in that job he also composed music especially for the unit’s leader, Lt. Col. George...

The title of the article is “Recipe for Cooking Husbands,” and it's the kind of title that can't be passed up. So here goes, from the 1974 Potpourri...

ADVENTURE Crazy Horse Volkmarch Black Hills, SD, June 4-5: This Crazy Horse-inspired hike is a 6.2-mile woodlands ramble to the world’s largest...