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...

A man first deemed to be a swashbuckler quickly spiraled into a scam artist. That man, Dr. Charles A. Pryor, stands next to rebel leader Pancho...

Spoiler alert!  John Wayne made sure the ending of his last film, The Shootist, was to his liking. His character, the dying gunfighter J.B. Books,...

Elmer McCurdy wanted to be an outlaw in the worst way….and that’s what he became…an outlaw in the worst way. His criminal career was distinguished...

In Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache author W. Michael Farmer describes the plight of the Mescalero Apaches of...

"Well, I have learned a little of the soldier’s life; I have learned how to make a charge when the command is given, and how to stand my ground and...