Frank Hamer was a legendary lawman/Texas Ranger.  He was in dozens of gunfights, proving his courage. He led the ambush that brought down Clyde...

Judge Roy Bean, the “Law West of the Pecos,” had some colorful ways to hand out justice in Texas. Like the time someone was stealing cattle from the...

Nate Champion was the working-class hero in the Johnson County War of 1892 that pitted Wyoming’s big ranchers, the Wyoming Stock Growers...

Sixty years ago, John Ford and his film company left Hollywood for Goulding’s Lodge and Monument Valley to make The Searchers, a film that many...

Endicott Peabody was a blue-blood easterner with a semester of divinity school under his belt when he went to Tombstone in January 1882. He made...

During the days of “bleeding Kansas,” as pro and anti-slavery forces fought over the soul of the place, there was a code when talking about the...

Grass Valley was once the golden heart of one of the most dramatic eras of the Old West—the California Gold Rush. The little town, tucked up in the...

Those hard rock miners in places like Jerome faced a number of hazards including gas pockets, cave in’s, silicosis of the lungs caused by dust from...

“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something important.” Allegedly, Francisco “Pancho” Villa spoke these final words to a group of...

Western author Win Blevins will receive the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature at the Western Writers of America...

It was a hard end for Billy the Kid pal Tom Folliard on December 19, 1880. Pat Garrett and posse ambushed the gang that evening at Fort Sumner, NM,...

The History Channel, on the boot heels of FOX News documentary series, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies: The Real West, has debuted its...