J. Stiles has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his last couple of books—one about Cornelius Vanderbilt and the other about George Armstrong Custer. His...

Did most Texas Rangers not wear badges until after the turn of the 20th century? Bob Dean Castroville, Texas The pre-Civil War Texas Rangers were...

Warning: Spoilers follow. The true odyssey of Hugh Glass is a fabulously thrilling action drama about one man’s obsession to survive under the most...

Curing ailments were quite popular in the 19th century. Patent medicines promised to cure everything from male impotency to unmentionable female...

Believe it or not, a 1936 German film, Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California), was partially filmed in Sedona. The script allegedly...

The name Studebaker today means a classy automobile from the 1920s. But the name Studebaker in the 1850s meant a first-class wheelbarrow. John M....

Although John Wayne is undeniably best known for Western films in which he packed an 1873 Colt Peacemaker and dispensed frontier justice with the...

California was bursting at the seams with fortune seekers in 1885, when 23-year-old Charles Fey landed in San Francisco. Gaming was made illegal in...

What is it about my Indiana home that seemed to breed Old West types—often bad guys? Try these on for size: John Ringo. Montana lawman/outlaw Buck...

Embarking by boat from San Francisco in 1874, Martha Summerhayes joined her army husband as he headed to far-off Arizona. Arriving in Yuma they met...

June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache scouts under his command, ride single file into the...

Water and crackers are all that sustained Ignace Wagner for a week when he arrived in San Francisco, California, in 1852. He borrowed some money and...