"Now began the real work….Rawhide ‘riatas’ were taken down, and a man rode into the bunch swinging the loop round his head like clockwork. All at...

Among the wide gamut of working women in the West were not only schoolteachers, nurses, restaurateurs, seamstresses, good time girls and even...

In the Old West, men who had a reputation for being dangerous with a gun were referred to as gunfighters, gunmen, badmen, shootists, pistoleers and...

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A century and a half ago Texas was rebuilding after the Civil War. Veterans were returning home to the Lone Star State—and thousands of soldiers,...

Legend says Sam Ketchum (photo) was sent out by the family to try to talk younger brother Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum out of a career in crime....

Abraham Henson Meadows was born under an oak tree in a snowstorm. After his family moved to Arizona in 1877, he grew into a big-strapping cowboy,...

There were many ways to pan for gold in California's Mother Lode during the 1850s but this one by a larcenous bartender takes the cake for...

What does “four-flusher” mean? Walter Serafin Shawnee, Kansas Wordsmith Ramon F. Adams defined a four-flusher as a bluffer, an incompetent person...

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, is best remembered for his active outdoor lifestyle. Whether one envisions Roosevelt leading the attack...

Belle Starr rented land to Edgar Watson in 1889, but then wanted him out.  She threatened to reveal that he was wanted for murder in Florida. Watson...

The rocky wilderness of the American West turned out to be the richest treasure trove of natural resources in the history of the civilized world....