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...

Morris Cooper Foote, a soldier who experienced firsthand numerous moments that shaped America’s frontier history and set the stage for the 20th...

Were members of the James-Younger Gang drunk when they robbed the bank in Northfield, Minnesota? John Inman Avon, Indiana None of the outlaws was...

With an anthropologist’s curiosity, an artist’s hands and an explorer’s heart, Western painter John Mix Stanley personally offered a changing nation...

Elmer J. McCurdy was one of the worst safe men the Old West ever saw. In March of 1911, he tried to rob the Iron Mountain-Missouri Pacific train...

"America’s most hallowed grounds” is how National Park Service Manager Chris Ziegler views the national cemeteries that hold the soldiers who fought...

The “Great Train Robbery” was written, produced, directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter, a former cameraman for Thomas Edison. It was the...