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...

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...