Gunman Ben Thompson (right) had his photo taken on March 11, 1884—and promptly signed and gave it to his friend, fellow shootist King Fisher (left)....

They came West for myriad reasons, integrating on the High Plains and in the Rocky Mountains, blending cultures as they met American Indians. Fur...

“Tongue nor pen can ever tell the sorrow,” says a heartbreaking film on the tragic 1856 Mormon handcart disaster at the Handcart Historic Site near...

Set in the decade following the Civil War, Joe R. Lansdale’s latest novel, Paradise Sky, recounts the story of infamous African-American cowboy and...

Tradition is more than just a buzzword out Wickenburg way. Although it’s only an hour away from the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the historic...

The mother of women's migration West was a beautiful, golden-haired missionary with a lovely soprano voice, but a heart that could never learn to...

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...