I wanted to write about Doc Holliday because I am drawn to the unfairly maligned. John Henry Holliday deserves more respect and compassion than he’s...

As Far As the Eye Could Reach:  Accounts of Animals Along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821-1880, by Phyllis S. Morgan is a wonderful essay collection that...

J. Frank Dalton wanted publicity—so much that he claimed to be famous Old West figures. In the 1940s, he said he was lawman Frank Dalton, who had...

Mike O’Rourke, 18, also known as Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce, and his roommate Robert Petty, 23, are eating in Smith’s restaurant in Charleston,...

Silent, deadly and accurate at close range, the American Indian’s handmade bow was capable of rapid fire. Because the archer’s bow threw a...

Henry Brown rode with Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County War, then after cowboying in the panhandle of Oklahoma he became a respected city marshal...

English author Winston Ramsey loves the history of the Old West. His passion for the historic places, towns, trails, events and characters is now...

Poker Alice, the colorful "Queen of the Western Gamblers," was both gambler and madam. She smoked long, black cheroots and packed a six-shooter.  ...

Fire was a constant threat in the West. There is barely a western settlement that doesn't include a historical note on the day it “burned to the...

I cowboyed with a man named John Tisdale in Wyoming in my youth. Didn’t a man by that name get killed in the Johnson County War? R.W. Garvey...

The Colt revolver is one of the best known weapons of the Old West. However, for a short period of time, Samuel Colt had competition from T.P....

Mustard was a colorful pantry staple used to flavor many dishes during the Old West era. The zesty condiment also had seedier sides, as a...