Two ranchers, Corydon Cooley and Marion Clark, decided the valley they lived in wasn’t big enough for the both of them. They played a card game to...

Larry Hazen (sitting, right in 1885) was one of the great law officers of the 1800s—still, you’ve probably never heard of him. But Adams Express,...

It took careful planning to figure out what food to take on a wagon train. Everything to feed a family for months—except game, which hopefully would...

Have you heard the tale about the teacher who inspired a seventh-grade class to dig up an 1800s Montana fur trapper buried by a California freeway...

  Sometimes survival is a matter of listening to your inner voice warning you to leave. Several travelers to Labette County had mysteriously...

For character actor Strother Martin, 1969— the year he turned 50-- was a banner year when it came to Westerns. He was in three big ones. He was a...

Life sometimes follows art. William Boyd was a silver-haired matinee idol who began his career as a leading man in silent movie romances with a...

What was the “badger game?” Robert Tignor Independence, Missouri Dating to the 19th century, the badger game is arguably one of the most reproduced...

For more than half a century, nobody remembered Evelyn Cameron or how she documented early Montana Territory days. Her name didn't appear in history...

The West provided a fount of opportunity for women. They ran the wide gamut of characters from wild and woolly women to the stalwart, calico-clad...

During her arduous journey into the war zone of Arizona in 1874, Martha Summerhayes gave high praise to a riverboat pilot, Captain Jack Mellon,...