University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Paul Andrew Hutton has balanced the academic with the popular for his entire career. He loves a...

The story goes that Frank Hamer was working for Dan McSween around 1900. The rancher asked the 16-year-old to kill someone for him; Frank refused....

Scott Stine’s A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery (University of Oklahoma...

Canyon Diablo proved to be a formidable barrier to travelers along the 35th Parallel in northern Arizona. In 1881 the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad...

When the United States acquired much of the Far West as a result of the War with Mexico much of the area was Terra Incognita, known only to a few...

He was a freighter, a scout, a gambler, a lawman and an actor (a bad one by his own admission). His real name was James, but someone called him...

What does Mark Twain mean by “Josh-lights” in Roughing It? Robert Frenchu Carson City, Nevada Mark Twain wrote “Josh-lights,” but should have been...

The Rough Riders were already the most famous outfit in the U.S. Army, but when the first contingents arrived at the “International” fairgrounds in...

Bannack, Montana was a great boomtown of the Old West. Founded in 1862 at the time gold was discovered in the area, it soon had a population of an...

Hollywood finally got around this year to commemorating a mountain man that some have called “The Luckiest man in the West"--Hugh Glass. The movie...

On the road to meet their Waterloo at Northfield, Minnesota, Cole Younger met some children at the little town of St. Peter, north of Mankato who...

In March of 1882, Wyatt Earp and a hand-picked posse, including Doc Holliday, scoured the hills of Cochise County looking for cowboys who had a hand...