America was celebrating its centennial when word came of George Custer’s destruction by the Lakota Sioux at the Little Big Horn (Northern Cheyennes...

What kind of restaurants existed in the Old West? Rick Green Scottsdale, Arizona Frontier Fare columnist Sherry Monahan has researched Old West...

What’s the story behind Wild Bill Hickok’s gunfight with a couple of soldiers in Hays City, Kansas? Michael Wharton Cottonwood, Arizona On the night...

Did naturally burning coal mines exist in the Old West? Carl Heyboer Dimondale, Michigan Explorers William Clark and Meriwether Lewis noticed...

The rolling Appalachian foothills of northeast Tennessee, where George Maledon lies peacefully buried, is a long ways away from the 16-foot-long...

On the Ashes of My Campfire, This City is Built.” That inscription has graced a 2,000-pound, nearly eight-foot-tall cement statue of a cowboy for 86...

"I sometimes buy ‘cottage cheese’ of our milkman. My grandmother called it ‘smear-case.’ I spell it just as she pronounced it. She used to mix it...

Since Owen Wister’s The Virginian was published in 1902, Western novelists have returned to the era of the transitional West, which, according to...

Catherine Holder Spude’s latest book, Saloons, Prostitutes and Temperance in Alaska Territory, highlights the enterprising business owners, soiled...

Gary Scharnhorst’s Owen Wister and the West is the most in-depth biography of this Eastern-bred writer who has been credited with creating the...

Lee A. Farrow’s Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-1872 is a well researched travelogue detailing Grand Duke Alexis Romanov’s...

This is the sequel to Lodge’s 2004 novel, Charley Sunday’s Texas Outfit. This thriller brings ex-Ranger Sunday’s “outfit” together again in 1900 and...