Female performers who played in the rough-hewn mining camp theaters had an edge on their male counterparts simply because they were women.  That...

From our perspective today it's hard to believe that Hollywood did not film the Wyatt Earp in Tombstone story until the 1930s! There had been movies...

Stephen W. Kearny played a big role in the conquest and settlement of the West. The career military officer captured New Mexico and established a...

Arizona was the last of the refuge of the drifting lawmen and desperadoes of the Old West.  Its wild country, lack of roads, and proximity to the...

In 1924, legendary actress Lotta Crabtree died, leaving behind an estate of $1.2 million and no known heirs. During a 1926 deposition about one of...

Gunman John Wesley Hardin penned his autobiography, which came out in 1896, a year after he died.  But there were problems--beyond Hardin’s bad...

  Born in 1844, Felix was the second son of Ceran St. Vrain, among the most influential traders in the West. Felix was named after his uncle,...

Where is the West and what defines it? Great questions that historians love to debate and have yet to be definitively answered. A recent released...