The government guaranteed Paha Sapa, the Black Hills, to the Lakota people through the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Six years later, the government...

What better adventure than to follow the trail blazed by Woodrow Call and Gus McRae—plus Dish, Deets, Newt and my personal favorite, Pea Eye Parker?...

Billy the Kid had a brother, or perhaps, a half-brother named Joe. Around 1880 he moved to Trinidad, Colorado where he made his living as a...

How many times have you heard someone looking at an antique firearm on display in a museum say, “I wonder how that works?” or “I wonder what it...

Texas Ranger Sgt. Tim Timberlake had a bad feeling—that an assignment to stop smuggler Encarnacion Delgado would be his last.  There were reasons;...

No one can come to the story of the Alamo without shock and awe. The tiny Spanish mission, built for prayer, not battle; 13 days in the cold of...

When Hollywood decided to make a movie adapted from the Broadway play Oklahoma in 1954 they couldn’t find a location in the Sooner State that...

July 27, 1890 Vincent van Gogh finishes his noontime meal at the Ravoux Inn, and heads for the wheatfields northeast of the tiny hamlet of...

How does the magazine separate history from legend, particularly in regards to the Earps and Tombstone? John Boring Phoenix, Arizona Our esteemed...

I was expelled from high school the day before graduation, and since I did not have my records to get into college, I attended New York University,...

Jim Sam was one of the earliest Asians to arrive on the west coast. In 1865 he opened a restaurant in Prescott and eventually operated restaurants...

One of the biggest surprises in the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803 was what they found in the future North Dakota. The American explorers...