An earthquake hit the Old West field in the fall of 2015. And a staid, relatively genial and, for the most part, collegial area of study was dragged...

In 1871, many Apache began flocking to the Camp Grant, AZ, area (photo) where they had access to food and supplies—in exchange for work. Other...

Funerals are a Western movie tradition: they’re intensely dramatic, with family, or grizzled outlaws, standing over the grave of someone whose death...

The mining towns of the West had an oversupply of con artists in search of suckers. After two years of delays, a shameless scoundrel named Anthony...

The first time anyone ever read a word written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, it was in the column she wrote for the Missouri Ruralist from around 1911...

Pieter Burggraaf’s The Walker Party: The Revised Story, Across New Mexico and Arizona Territories and up the Hassayampa River 1861-1863 concerns...

A well-traveled trail rests peacefully between the rich forested hillsides around the town of Cascade, Montana, and snakes 12 miles west to St....

John Bull made a reputation as an Old West gunfighter.  But he was also pretty good with his fists. In February 1864, it was the Irish vs. the...

In the spring of 1877 the Southern Pacific Railroad was building east on the first transcontinental line through Arizona. After getting permission...

Doc Holliday Im Your Huckleberry In the classic Western movie “Tombstone” (1993) Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday, says to Johnny Ringo, “I’m your...

Zerelda James, mother of Frank and Jesse James, would agree that her kitchen was deadly. When she moved into her home in 1845, she would have no...

In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, basically prohibiting any and all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States....