The original ‘King of the Cowboys” was literally tall in the saddle. In an age when the average cowboy was five feet eight inches William Levi...

That was “Nellie Bly,” the “stunt reporting” woman who made her name in the late 1800s, mostly for traveling around the world in 72 days, beating...

Fifty years ago, director Sam Peckinpah’s controversial Major Dundee, starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris was floundering at the box office....

Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald is famous for the line, “One riot, one Ranger.”  But like so many notable quotes, it’s probably more folklore...

Everyone knew that John Wesley Hardin was one of the deadliest gunfighters in all the West. Which is why, late in the evening of August 19, 1895,...

Just how good were the “good ol days?” Folks on the western frontier led a hardscrabble life. They were wan with fever, gaunt, scrawny and peaked....

Dan Tipton knew a moment of fame, riding with Wyatt Earp on the so-called Vendetta Ride, hunting down the killers of Morgan Earp. Later on, he met...

Was laundry day! Sometimes it was Mondays, but more than not, Wednesdays. First, women had to make the lye soap; then they had to haul water,...

When the veterans came home from the battlefields and their postings far from home 150 years ago, the toll of the war was felt from the hamlets of...

Back in 1879, folks in Las Vegas, New Mexico found a new use for the windmill in the town plaza.  And why not—the well had gone dry a couple of...