Arguing that Western movies have for more than a century “reflected American history and culture,” Richard Aquila’s ambitious new book, The...

  She was a businesswoman, a landowner, a healer and a founding mother of a wild land that would become California. And she was a Spanish...

Morris Cooper Foote, a soldier who experienced firsthand numerous moments that shaped America’s frontier history and set the stage for the 20th...

Were members of the James-Younger Gang drunk when they robbed the bank in Northfield, Minnesota? John Inman Avon, Indiana None of the outlaws was...

With an anthropologist’s curiosity, an artist’s hands and an explorer’s heart, Western painter John Mix Stanley personally offered a changing nation...

Elmer J. McCurdy was one of the worst safe men the Old West ever saw. In March of 1911, he tried to rob the Iron Mountain-Missouri Pacific train...

"America’s most hallowed grounds” is how National Park Service Manager Chris Ziegler views the national cemeteries that hold the soldiers who fought...

The “Great Train Robbery” was written, produced, directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter, a former cameraman for Thomas Edison. It was the...

Langford Peel and John Bull (in illustration, in a fake holdup of Mark Twain) ran con games throughout the West.  The association ended on July 22,...

When the final episode of A&E’s Longmire, season three, came to a close, audiences were left with some tantalizing questions: Now that Walt...

Biddy Mason walked from Mississippi to California behind her slave master's wagon train, herding cattle, cooking meals and caring for her three...

The writers came to Wyatt Earp. They wanted his story; they wanted to know all about that street fight in Tombstone, Arizona, and the Vendetta Ride...