Imagine the reaction in 1854 when a Cheyenne Chief, at a peace conference in Fort Laramie, suggested the U.S. Army give the tribe “1000 white women”...

There’s a story told about Butch Cassidy compatriot Matt Warner… Matt was tending bar in a Price, Utah speakeasy during the height of Prohibition...

Author Michael Zimmer received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2015 Outstanding Western Novel Award for The Poacher’s Daughter,...

Tombstone’s Allen Street is one of the most famous in the Old West. On the north side saloons were open 24 hours a day. It’s typical of Arizona’s...

                  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....