It's no secret that cattle ranching was a lucrative business—after all, Cheyenne, Wyoming was considered the wealthiest city in the world in the mid...

The 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge reserved much of the Texas Panhandle as hunting lands for the Indians, however white buffalo hunters ignored the...

On Friday, June 26, 2015, the Western Writers of America held a historic induction of the first class of living authors to the Western Writers Hall...

The summer after William “Billy the Kid” McCarty cheated his hangman and successfully broke out of jail, killing two guards during his escape,...

Bill Longley, cold-blooded killer of many men, had a brutal end.  On October 11, 1878 he was hanged for murder in Giddings, TX. But the executioners...

A cowboy in the old west wasn't dressed until he tied on his kerchief. That little piece of cloth had so many uses: A dust mask when herding cattle;...

The best time the young Pony Express riders set was in March of 1861, when they delivered the text of President Lincoln's inaugural speech from St....

The bawdy houses produced a litany of ladies with colorful sobriquets. The tender feelings western men had for these ladies are shown in the...

As the book review editor for True West magazine, I receive calls, emails and announcements on new books almost every day. But, I never expected to...

It seems a bit strange that two of the baddest guys of the Old West were preacher’s kids. Jesse James’ father was a well-known Baptist minister in...

After Pancho Villa and his bandits raided Columbus, New Mexico, and the troops stationed there on March 9, 1916, Brig. Gen. John “Black Jack”...

Theaters were a popular form of entertainment in early Arizona and the first moving pictures came to the towns in the 1890’s.  They were shown...