According to The Old West Quiz and Fact Book by Rod Gragg, “After the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Seventh Calvary's wounded were placed on...

Pinkerton detective Joseph Whicher had more guts than sense.  In March 1874, he went undercover to try to catch Jesse James (in photo) by seeking...

Anyone who has traveled U.S. Highway 60 across western New Mexico has passed through a town with a name easy to remember—Pie Town. The University of...

Who was the narrator at the beginning of The Lone Ranger? Barbara Stevens Marcellus, Michigan Frederick William “Fred” Foy. Radio historian Jim...

By the time the Pilgrims got around to settling Plymouth in 1620, Santa Fe had been a bustling community for more than a decade. For over four...

Annie Oakley joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1884 and was an instant sensation. Soon she was an international star. Her repertoire included...

Reading, writing and riding might be Rod Miller’s life mantra. A fourth-generation Utah native, the former college and PRCA cowboy grew up in...

George Ruffner arrived in Prescott in 1882 and in the years that followed was a cowboy, freighter, rancher and, in 1894, sheriff of Yavapai County....

The “Gun That Won the West” is a subject that many firearms and Old West aficionados love to discuss and debate. Was the so-called West-winning gun...

Hoosier-born Dan Dedrick would have been just another Old West guy—except that around 1877 or ’78, he started hanging out with Billy the Kid and the...

Before the growth of the pharmaceutical industry, folks relied on “natural” remedies, and one of the most popular was a simple lemon. Potpourri of...

Texas Tech University Press has recently published West Texas author Joyce Gibson Roach new collection of short stories The Land of Rain Shadows:...