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,...

The great detective said that he and six associates kidnapped outlaw John Reno from a Seymour, IN train depot in November 1867.  The lawmen pulled...

Bill O’Reilly is no stranger to digging into history. The political commentator and host for The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel has put his...

Is Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin on the Western frontier, the Father of the West? Our nation celebrated 150 years ago—on April 9,...

The surest way to riches during the California Gold Rush was not to work your tail off diggin’ in the dirt; it was “mining the miners.” Find...

If you read Unbreakable Dolls: True Stories of Courageous Women Who Helped Settle Northern Arizona you will learn that Arizona's capital city has...

When those old gunfighters are sittin’ around up there in Valhalla discussing who was the best of em all the name Bass Reeves is sure to be among...