Howard Hughes is credited with bringing Ben Johnson out to Hollywood from Oklahoma in the late 1930s and introducing him to director John Ford. An...

So did Bat Masterson really carry a cane, like he did in the TV series starring Gene Barry? One legend says he needed one after an 1876 Texas...

Almost everyone who reads True West magazine is familiar with Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holliday in 1993's Tombstone. It is a signature role and...

If you are on a tour of the historical sites and battlefields of the Great Sioux War of 1876 in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, all...

  In 1860, the last wagon company leaving Fort Hall for Oregon was led by Capt. Elijah Utter. The Utter Party of 44 souls included seven...

Whether you are a first time visitor or a regular at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, you have stood in...

The 2004 meeting of the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association (WOLA) was gathered in Utah and listening to two historians.  Not just any...

After Wyatt Earp’s death in 1929 and the publication of Stuart Lake’s book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal in 1931, moviemakers finally began to nibble...

The South Dakota Historical Society has just released John D. McDermott’s Red Cloud: Oglala Legend ($14.95). The Rapid City writer is a...

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...