Allen Barra: You wrote in your preface, “Custer battled American Indians ruthlessly, yet wrote that he would resist too were he one of them.” His...

Despite Nobel’s best efforts, his dynamite was used as a weapon nearly as often (if not more so) as it was for construction. There was little doubt...

Hollywood matinee idol William Boyd had a wicked reputation as a boozer, womanizer and hell-raiser. In time his career foundered; nobody wanted to...

Old West journalism was highly entertaining, often partisan, big on boosterism, rife with misspelled words and potentially dangerous as rival...

John Colter was a good hunter, a skilled woodsman, got along well with Indians and had a knack for surviving hazards and hardships that put other...

Scottish author and columnist for Cinema Retro magazine Brian Hannan has recently published an outstanding, well-illustrated book The Making of the...

How was Morgan Earp killed? Ron Lervold Chandler, Arizona In Tombstone, Arizona, on March 18, 1882, an assassin fired a rifle through the back door...

Bethenia Owens-Adair was a woman who knew her mind. She was the first female doctor in the West, and was also a determined lobbyist for the Women's...

Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, served in Congress, fought Indians and died a legend at the...

Although Dodge City, the bibulous "Babylon of the Plains" was well-known for its wicked ways it also attracted a number of preachers who welcomed...

Many know the stories of how young, white woman from the East Coast traveled West to marry men who paid their train tickets—looking for a new life...

In 1880, young Juan Oliveras of Tucson was caught in an amorous act with his mother-in-law by her husband who chased his son-in-law down and killed...