When Sarah Clark Kidder found herself the owner of the majority of stock in the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad at her husband's death in 1901,...

When were boots made specifically for right and left feet? Michael C. Westlund Clarkdale, Arizona History does not make the origin year clear. Some...

Wintertime blues clouding your mood? Do you dream of an adventure to escape the monotony of endless gray skies and rush-hour commutes? Want to cut...

Early Western stars Tom Mix and William S. Hart were both fascinated by the Old West—or at least by its myth and legend. Its well established that...

The law couldn’t keep cattle rustler Rufus Nephew aka Climax Jim in jail for long. He’d just made bail was out riding when he spied a small bunch of...

She was a big woman—six feet, 175 pounds—and she could wield an axe like a lumberman, which she did time and again to break up salons in her drive...

History knows Billy the Kid as a hothead with a hogleg. But he loves throwing us curveballs. As a boy running the streets of Silver City, New...

Early Western star Tom Mix was a rarity in the early days of film: he’d actually been a cowboy. Born in Pennsylvania in 1880, Mix spent time in the...

There must be hundreds of delicious “quotes” that help define and reveal the Old West. They're always colorful, always memorable, and some of them...

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,...