In May 1888, a host of well-dressed and polished guests crowded into the fashionable lobby of the Windsor Hotel in St. Helena, California, to catch...

Charlie Connelly was a man who did his duty—unto death. Connelly was from Indiana, usually working as a teacher. At age 40, he and his family moved...

In June 1880, Philip M. Thurmond walked around the newly formed mining camp of Tombstone and asked for the vital statistics of every person he could...

Bobbie Nudie had a simple motto: “It is always better to be looked over, than to be overlooked.” Her real name was Helen Cohn, but she lived the...

Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOW The Cowboy Returns: Photographs by Bank and John Langmore Oklahoma City,...

In 1888, Ski-be-nan-ted , better known as The Apache Kid, was sentenced to a ten year term at Alcatraz for a crime he did not commit. Pardoned after...

Jim Masterson isn’t as well known as his brother Bat, but he actually spent more time in law enforcement than his older sibling; about 17 years. His...

It was a race to build a transcontinental railroad—one crew coming from the east, the other from the west, eventually to meet up in Utah. James...

Gary L. Stuart’s The Valles Caldera (Gleason and Wall Publishing, $14.95), the second in his Angus series following Ten Shoes Up, features the...

At age 20, Pierre Jean De Smet left his native Belgium and came to America, where, in 1821, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Maryland. He studied...

“You Know My Name,” is a 1999 film that glorified Oklahoma lawman Bill Tilghman. Sam Elliott is one of my all-time favorite actors and this is...

We have this image of Old West saloons serving rotgut, but in wild Tombstone, A.T., Kelly’s Wine House served 26 wines imported from Europe and had...