Not all shootists were expert marksmen. In Dodge City, one night in 1880, a bunch of Texas drovers tangled in Sherman's Saloon. Hundreds of shots...

                  The name is very familiar, but what this teenaged girl did—and what she meant to the...

A few surprising notes on Hanging Judge Isaac Parker, who was the law for the Western District of Arkansas out of Ft. Smith. He opposed the death...

September 7, 1893 Not many folks are out and about on this stifling hot Thursday morning in Delta, Colorado. At 10:15 a.m., fifteen minutes after...

Arizona pioneer Jack Swilling was a founder of both Prescott and Phoenix—and an accused stage robber. In 1878, Jack and two friends were mistaken...

As in the Cheyenne Club—the private cattlemen's club in Wyoming Territory that was “over the top” in every way. It sat like a beacon on Seventeenth...

General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Northern Army of Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse on April 12. Three days later President Abraham Lincoln was...

One of the West's most unusual gunfighter gunsels was Bill Tettenborn, better-known as Russian Bill. There are a number of tales about his origins. ...

Actor James Coburn, best known for his Western films The Magnificent Seven and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was posthumously inducted into the...

On September 19th, 1900, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and members of the Wild Bunch were on their way to Winnemucca, Nevada to rob the local...

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...