I used to perform the old folk song, “Waggoner’s Lad” and the first lines were “Hard...

There is a lot of controversy rumbling through the airwaves and social media about Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News series Legends & Lies: Into the...

Idaho marks a century and a quarter of statehood in 2015 and while much has happened to define the state during the past 125 years, the landscape...

From P.T. Barnum to Buffalo Bill Cody, successful 19th-century showmen knew that a degree of truth was essential to the most potent deceptions. This...

  The Donner-Reed Party remains the most famous wagon train in the history of the West. William Eddy and his family from Illinois—Eleanor,...

A celebration broke out when Oklahoma Territory became an official entity 125 years ago, on May 2, 1890. But the man who may have been most...

An intriguing clue comes from Clark Hust, a cowboy who had worked as a boy for Pat Coghlan, an Irish immigrant rancher in Tularosa, New...

With all we know about Billy the Kid, most do not know he was part of a counterfeit ring. The Sunday afternoon meeting had a business appearance....

This August 7-9, Lincoln, New Mexico, will host its 75th annual Billy the Kid Pageant. Artist and friend of True West Magazine Buckeye Blake has...

Fed up with stories that the lack of a death record is evidence that Billy the Kid didn’t die in July 1881 and instead lived on (think Kid imposter...

This photo, found in a shoebox of tintypes at an antique store in Fresno, California, has caused quite a stir. The owner believes it was taken near...

Some things are just, as today’s youth are fond of saying, random. I picked up the shown 1880s tintype in a Missouri antique shop a few years ago....