Her name isn't real and neither are most of the folklore images of her. Calamity...

If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.” A few years ago the late author Jack Koblas told me a poignant...

More than 1,600 miles from Hollywood, California, in Winterset, Iowa, is the humble home of Clyde and Mary Morrison, who welcomed their first son...

Was Steve McQueen channeling Tom Mix when he filmed Junior Bonner in Prescott in 1971? We’ll never know, but we do know this: Tom Mix was the real...

Texas Ranger James Coryell and two compatriots headed out from Fort Milam (near Waco) on May 27, 1837 and found a bee tree about a mile away.  They...

Movies have tried paint Judge Roy Bean, the "Law West of the Pecos," as a hanging judge. Bean was more of a blowhard with an uncanny ability to know...

During the “Golden Age” of film, which spanned the 1920s through the early 1960s, moviemakers often relied on the classic lines and smooth action of...

Outlaw Clell Miller was killed in the infamous James-Younger Gang robbery at Northfield, MN on September 7, 1876.  What happened to his body is...

That's how historian Grace Raymond Hebard described Chief Washakie of the Wyoming Shoshone Tribe. Her excellent biography notes the chief was so...

Romance is alive and well in Western fiction. From Bethany House’s Old West and Christian Westerns, to Harlequin’s and Kensington’s traditional...

“When I finally announced that I was going to become a doctor it broke the heart of all my friends and I was publicly disgraced. Women that I had...

Some old-timers claimed Butch Cassidy got his nickname from the short time he worked as a butcher in Wyoming.  Matt Warner, who rode with Butch,...