When the log battering ram crashed against the jailhouse door, the prisoners inside cowered against the far wall, screaming for help in a desperate...

Image a poodle. How cute. How cuddly. Such a no-no in the old West. According to Anne Seagraves' Soiled Doves, poodles were the preferred pet of...

On the evening of Saturday, April 8th, 1905, two cowboys, John Shaw and Bill Smythe walked into the Wigwam Saloon in Winslow, bellied up to the bar...

Thanksgiving has been celebrated in America from the earliest days, but it became an official national holiday in 1863 in the midst of the Civil...

What do you get when you combine gutsy bravado, a genteel Victorian society background and the rugged backdrop of the Southwestern cultural...

Lottie Deno was an Old West success story. Born in 1844, she became a professional gambler in the 1860s—a rarity for a woman. She and her...

"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...