"Pard” made perfect sense as a nickname for Robert Strahorn. After his newspaper work as the first civilian correspondent attached to Gen. George...

The first Colt revolvers, produced between 1836 and 1841 were the .36 caliber Paterson model "belt" or "holster" revolvers. Calibers ranged from .28...

The loneliness of greedy hide hunters, the courage of desperate men under attack and the anguish of a vanquished people fighting for their freedom...

The Wild West of Louis L’Amour: An Illustrated Companion to the Frontier Fiction of an American Icon by Tim Champlin (Voyageur Press, $30) is a...

On April 16th, 1866 a massive explosion rocked the San Francisco Wells Fargo office and surrounding buildings. According to the Placer Herald based...

The Western icon and film hero John Wayne is the star of Michael Goldman’s tribute John Wayne: The Genuine Article: The Untold Story of an American...

During time of war Americans have always displayed a fondness for volunteer regiments. Teddy Roosevelt’s storied Rough Riders comes to mind but...

When Charlotte Caldwell looked out from her ranch in Shields Valley a dozen years ago, she observed, less than “a mile as the crow flies,” an old...