Pendleton, Oregon, got its start in 1862 when Moses Goodwin traded a span of mules for land and built a bridge over the Umatilla River. It became a...

She was beautiful, or, she was a toothless hag. She had coal-black hair, or, she had a shock of red hair. She was from Sonora, Mexico, or France....

Herman Lehmann lived an extraordinary life. In 1870, the 10-year-old was kidnapped by Apaches near Mason, TX. He lived with them for about seven...

A century ago, the modern weaponry carried by the European armed forces of World War I killed thousands of young men on a daily basis. The carnage...

Legendary outlaw Curly Bill Brocius had a perverse sense of humor. He once broke into a dance on the San Pedro and at gunpoint forced everyone to...

Dr. Joe Medicine Crow died on Sunday in Montana.  He was an amazing man--a medicine man, a war chief, a leader, a WWII vet and hero, a teacher, a...

  Strap on your spurs and get ready for a wild time in Historic Deadwood, South Dakota. Watch daily shootouts on Main Street. See reenactments...

Why do Westerns show mainly male horses? Carleton Cooley                                                                                            ...

Rubble was all that was left of one of the most famous trading posts in the nation—a must stop on Route 66 “where real Indians trade.” A fire in...

James Gillett had been a noted Texas Ranger for three years when he led a group of Rangers to Round Rock, TX in July 1878. The plan—head off the Sam...

The only physical remnant of one of the West’s more unusual survival stories is an all-too-graphic reminder of the pain and suffering that frontier...

The Comstock Lode of Nevada was the richest silver strike, the "Granddaddy" of them all. In the Washoe Mountains, east of the Sierra Nevada, three...