Henry Brown—a veteran of the Lincoln County War and a lawman in Caldwell, KS—was in financial trouble.  He’d gotten married to a local girl, bought...

Fans of AMC’s Hell on Wheels anticipate the driving of the Golden Spike the same way Dracula anticipated the driving of the wooden one: closure is...

More than 30 years passed before four citizen groups and multiple city councils saved a “precious jewel in Austin’s crown,” the Norwood Park...

A pioneer who built the “largest Lima bean ranch in the world” owned the “most gorgeous thing of its kind in the world,” a Mexican pattern saddle...

Museums across the West have a common theme this year: New. It takes years to plan, fund, develop and install museum exhibitions, and the fruit of...

In 1847, the western U.S. was a sleepy wilderness populated mostly by American Indians and Mexicans. The region changed virtually overnight when...