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Trails to the Truth
Historians and aficionados of the American West must have been surprised when they first heard that FOX News’s Bill O’Reilly was going to follow up...
Yellow Rock
In 2011’s Yellow Rock, broken man Tom Hanner (Michael Biehn) is hired by sinister Max Dietrich (James Russo) to find his brother and nephew, who...
Elizabeth Fenn
If I had been a member of the Corps of Discovery, I would have brought my own vial of smallpox vaccine. Meriwether Lewis’s supply lost its potency...
August 2015 Events
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ADVENTURE Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West Lost Angeles, CA, August...
The Big Divide
Western emigrants didn't feel they had “crossed the Rockies” until they'd crossed the Continental Divide. To do that, the westward bound wagons had...
The Last Indian Battle
One of those post-Indian Wars gunfights, almost lost in history occurred in northern Arizona on November 11th, 1899, long after the Indian Wars had...
The Old West is Alive in San Diego
After a few days at the beach, travelers to San Diego should set aside a day to tour the city in search of its Old West heritage. The first stop for...
Outlaw Hideouts
The Outlaw Trail wasn’t really one specific trail, but a series of hideouts that ran from Montana through Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico,...
Shot and Left for Dead
In November 1864, Medicine Woman Later and her husband, Southern Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle, set up their lodge amongst a large encampment...
Frank Hamer’s First Gunfight
Legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was in more than 50 gunfights. His first was memorable. It was 1900, and 16-year-old Frank and his younger...
Butch Cassidy Master Train Robber?
Butch Cassidy’s folk hero image actually exceeded his outlawry. In 1898, a Chicago newspaper referred to him as the “King of the Bandits,” and the...