The script touched something deep inside me, which was how much I’d always wanted to make a Western.” Director Roland Joffé’s voice charges with...

The American West was built on the Homestead Act of 1862, President Lincoln's plan to encourage development of western lands. It provided 160-acre...

This guy is not Doc Holliday.  He is John Escapule, born in France in 1856, who came to southeast Arizona in 1877. John became friendly with...

She was called the Mexican Joan of Arc; she was called the Saint of Cabora—she was a teenaged healer who inspired a revolution against the Mexican...

Pete McCartney was known as the “King of the Counterfeiters,” manufacturing perhaps millions of dollars in bogus bills between the 1840s and 1880s. ...

On April 27, 1865, the worst maritime disaster in United States history occurred when three of four boilers on the steamship Sultana exploded and...

Looking at his photo Andy “Cooper” Blevins looks like a nice boy, but behind that façade was a young man mean enough to eat off the same plate with...

For nearly two centuries, the horse and the gun have been among the most iconic images of the West—and for good reason. A strong horse and a...

Imagine the reaction in 1854 when a Cheyenne Chief, at a peace conference in Fort Laramie, suggested the U.S. Army give the tribe “1000 white women”...

There’s a story told about Butch Cassidy compatriot Matt Warner… Matt was tending bar in a Price, Utah speakeasy during the height of Prohibition...

Author Michael Zimmer received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2015 Outstanding Western Novel Award for The Poacher’s Daughter,...

Tombstone’s Allen Street is one of the most famous in the Old West. On the north side saloons were open 24 hours a day. It’s typical of Arizona’s...