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....

Illinois-based Gerald Duff, a prolific writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, treads into dangerous territory in Playing Custer: A Novel. Not...

By the early 1880s, Colt was the undisputed leader in the handgun field. However, wishing to capture some of the rifle market, Colt acquired the...

Beginning in California in the 1830s flying dragons have been a fixture in the West. They appear to be an amalgamation of western European and...

Every summer, in July and August, we get the big dust storms that freak out everybody who isn’t from Arizona. And, by the way, we never called them...

Allen Barra: In Wanted, you cite a friend of Billy the Kid declaring, “He was a good kid, but he got in the wrong company.” Does that accurately...

Wilbur Sanders was one of the true founding fathers of Montana—in a number of ways. The New York-born attorney came to the territory in late 1863. ...