When Edward Borein died in 1945, he left on his easel an unfinished oil depicting cattle at a watering hole, with a group of mounted cowboys yet to...

Just what would one expect Clyde W. Tombaugh to do the night of Feb. 18, 1930 when the 24 year-old amateur astronomer ended decades of speculation...

There are so many extraordinary things about Aztec! We constantly boast about our fabulous events, top-shelf recreation, enviable climate, rich...

On August 16th, 1896 a prospector named George Carmack, his Tagish Indian wife Kate, her brother Skookum Jim and nephew Tagish Charlie were looking...

Tom Horn was famed as a gunman. But gun ignorance did him in. He was awaiting execution for the murder of Willie Nickell when he and a pal broke out...

Wyatt and Josie Earp tried their hand at Alaska in 1899, following the gold rush to Nome where they opened (with Charlie Hoxie) the Dexter Saloon. ...

What that phrase meant in the mid-1800s—was the “camel of the prairie,” the small wooden wagon carrying some 400,000 people west, the Conestoga...

For many, the gunfighter evokes images of an errant knight on horseback who rides into town and rescues the helpless citizens from bad guys bent on...

When the directors of the University of Texas Press decided to reissue eight J. Frank Dobie classics from its catalog two years ago, a discussion...

During the early 1900s Rufus Nephew aka “Climax Jim,” was one of the most notorious horse thieves in Arizona. Lawmen caught him one day and hauled...

Perhaps the most riveting moment in American history to date was 2:40 p.m., Monday, May 10, 1869. Today, we know that as the moment when the last...

James D. Horan was a prolific writer, a New York newspaperman who also penned history, historical fiction and novels (more than 40 books total).  He...