In the late 1880s, the Wyoming Stock Growers Association put together an assassination squad, led by the infamous lawman Frank Canton (photo).  The...

A recent television series referred to Doc Holliday as a “vicious killer” but Doc’s reputation as the “deadly dentist” is greatly exaggerated. One...

In Westerns when a bad guy is shot, he invariably dies a clean death, i.e. quickly and neatly. But in real life mortally wounded outlaws could...

Belle Starr said that, the “bandit queen” who liked her men, her moonshine and her stolen horses. There's a part of her legend that speaks of...

Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ADVENTURE Eagle Tour & Loon Watch Vian, OK , February 6: This tour of Sequoyah...

Being born on the same day as George Custer, I have known about him practically all my life. My great-grandfather McDermott, who was born in 1870,...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 really lit the fuse of the Civil War.  The measure allowed citizens in those territories to decide whether or not to...

What route did the cattle drives take to get to Sedalia, Missouri? Robert Tignor Independence, Missouri The cattle drives to Sedalia, Missouri, were...

The mining community of Alta, Utah, has the dubious distinction of being among the top in the world for suffering catastrophic avalanches. The town...

George Ruffner arrived in Prescott in 1882 and in the years that followed was a cowboy, freighter, rancher and in 1894 he was elected Sheriff of...

That's one way to describe Nellie Cashman, one of the Old West's most famous entrepreneurs, who showed the gold in her heart to the miners who...

Four or five times a year, artist Ed Ruscha would drive from LA to his parent’s home in Oklahoma. In 1962, Ruscha photographed a series of gas...