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,...

The outhouse beind the Tivoli Gardens on Allen Street was the starting point for Tombstone’s second major fire in March of 1882. Within an hour, the...

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s showmanship was virtually unchallenged throughout his lifetime, yet he did not possess a strong business acumen. At...

William S. Hart was one of the first Western stars—one of the biggest movie stars of the nineteen-teens and ‘20s.  But his earlier work was a little...