In the 1980 movie Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Horn has a run-in with heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan. Did that truly happen?...
As historians mark the conclusion of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War and the beginning of the American Indian Wars that lasted from...
Did Clay Allison get in a gunfight with Deputy Sheriff Charles Faber? Butch Kelly Lamar, Colorado Yes. On December 21, 1876, in Las Animas,...
Growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, grounded me. In college, a professor pointed out to me, “You’ve written this poem for people who know...
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ADVENTURE Crazy Horse Volksmarch Custer, SD, June 6-7: Run the 10K to the world’s...
The first decade of the 20th century was an incredible time of transition and exploration, and yet, surprisingly, few historians have attempted to...
Jeremy Agnew has taken on a massive task in The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact, tracing not only the origins of the cowboy/hero...
The Alamo is arguably the most recognizable shrine in the state of Texas. Ron J. Jackson and Lee S. White’s Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo...
It had all the makings of a nice little score. George Isaacs stuffed five sacks of mostly blank paper scraps and presented them at the Wells Fargo...
A century ago, the 17-year-old daughter of an ambitious Prescott, Arizona, pharmacist had traveled over three days and 2,400 miles to New York to...
The original ‘King of the Cowboys” was literally tall in the saddle. In an age when the average cowboy was five feet eight inches William Levi...
That was “Nellie Bly,” the “stunt reporting” woman who made her name in the late 1800s, mostly for traveling around the world in 72 days, beating...