How many of the regular cast of Gunsmoke are still alive today? Dan Winrow Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sadly, most of those stars are gone. One died...

Historian and cartographer Pieter S. Burggraaf has just published a ground breaking history of early Arizona: The Walker Party—The Revised Story:...

Bat Masterson is one of the most famous lawmen in the Old West.  But he was also a serial lawbreaker. Bat was born in Canada in 1853 and never...

In September, 1927, MGM Studios decided to send their new mascot, a 400-lb. African Lion, on a goodwill trip by airplane to New York City. The...

Do any accounts exist of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains or Indian villages in the Old West? Roger Tignor Independence, Missouri The...

Colorado historian Tracy Beach has recently published the biography of one of Colorado’s most colorful and entrepreneurial Red Light District...

Retired police lieutenant Monty McCord grew up riding horses and watching Westerns in Hastings, Nebraska. A native of the Cornhusker State, McCord...

Carolyn McCartney’s documentary about her grandmother, sharpshooter Wanda Savage, is a mind-boggling pleasure. Part Chickasaw and born to a family...

  Working deep in the earth as a miner is a job with many hazards, including poison gases, explosions, collapses, floods and fires to name a...

On April 19, 1908 in Skidoo, California, a bartender named Joe “Hooch” Simpson gunned down the town banker, Jim Arnold and robbed him of $20. Three...

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...