All were visualized by a man who immigrated to America in 1846 as a six-year-old boy from Bavaria. Thomas Nast became a political cartoonist...

One of the most well-known lines from a Western is widely misquoted: “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” Actually, in the 1948 classic “The...

Tiffany Schofield grew up watching Westerns with her grandfather (but agonized over the frail, clumsy women portrayed), and enjoyed horseback riding...

Sitting Bull strived to retain Lakota lifestyle and lands. He belonged to the Hunkpapa tribe of the Lakota people, also known as the Sioux. His...

On the afternoon of September 15th, 1896 a publicity stunt involving two steam locomotives going at full throttle raced towards each other at sixty...

The women of Arizona Territory spent a quarter-century seeking the right to vote in all elections. They'd been given the vote in school elections in...

Around 1880, the Graham and Tewksbury families were friends and neighbors in central Arizona.  The soon ended in arguments over possible rustling,...

During the Civil War, Gen. Irvin McDowell lost the First Battle of Bull Run and then, defying all odds, lost the second Bull Run (although he was...

I’ve heard Westerns state “something” is a day’s ride away. How far was a day’s ride in the Old West era? Mark J. Dirnbauer Copperas Cove, Texas The...

June 27, 1874 The Comanches and their Kiowa and Southern Cheyenne allies are hell bent on driving buffalo hunters off their land. The hunters have...

Some of those western outlaws were tough to the end. What does a condemned man say when he was asked if he had any last words? Does he whimper and...

Bub Meeks was like Butch Cassidy—a Mormon, born in the 1860s in Utah, and on the hunt for adventure.  So it’s understandable they would hook up.  In...