Martin Scorsese once said, “More than 90 percent of directing is the right casting.” Lonesome Dove is the greatest Western miniseries—no, to hell...

Recently I came across this article on my hometown situated on the Santa Fe Railroad line Old National Trail and the soon-to-be storied Route 66....

Mike Meagher was one of the toughest lawmen in the West.  At age 28, in 1871, the Irish born Meagher was appointed marshal of cowtown Wichita,...

Nebraska, known by the slogan, “Where the West Begins,” is an Otoe Indian word meaning flat water, which referred to the Platte River. Even before...

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...