Hundreds of people kept journals highlighting their travels across America in the 19th century, but Evelyn Booth’s account of the journey he and...

After years on a starvation diet of barely one movie per year, Westerns fans face a feast of entertainment unseen since the early 1960s. While this...

Ya gotta love those ladies of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast. Among the most popular women who came to “make their fortunes” were the Waddling Duck,...

The outhouse beind the Tivoli Gardens on Allen Street was the starting point for Tombstone’s second major fire in March of 1882. Within an hour, the...

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s showmanship was virtually unchallenged throughout his lifetime, yet he did not possess a strong business acumen. At...

William S. Hart was one of the first Western stars—one of the biggest movie stars of the nineteen-teens and ‘20s.  But his earlier work was a little...

When did bowling reach Arizona? Paul W. Hughes Vacaville, California The earliest bowling alley I found in Arizona was Vogan’s Saloon in Tombstone...

Armchair authorities and Hot Stove Historians continue to argue as to who or what started the “Street Fight” near the OK Corral. I like the late...

Drinking too much alcohol in the Old West was a year-round sporting event and, of course, had its own slang. If someone was drunk they were “in...

That's what it amounted to, one of the great memories of the American West—the Pony Express: 80 skinny boys and their fast ponies. This western...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokees from their homeland to Oklahoma. Probably few...

Paris was a city Buffalo Bill’s Wild West hoped to conquer. Cody’s show proved a sensation. Parisians flocked to Neuilly to see the Wild West...