Arguably the zaniest and most overrated train robber in the history of the West was Al Jennings of Oklahoma. He botched every attempt but eventually...

David Thompson was fourteen when he began his life in North America as a clerk’s apprentice with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). He may have been in...

"My daddy, he made whiskey And my granddaddy did too And we ain’t paid no whiskey tax Since Seventeen Ninety-Two." —Albert Frank Beddoe The...

                    March 2015 - Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West!...

We remember Dewey Beard, of the famed Miniconjou Lakota Horn Cloud family, much as this book’s subtitle suggests, as the last survivor of the Little...

  In 1849, the entire world seemed to be on the move to the California gold fields. One of the “Argonauts of ’49” was Vermonter William Manly....

The grandeur and awe-inspiring beauty of the rugged, wide-open spaces of the American West have lured millions to travel to enjoy the history and...

Legendary rock musician Phil Collins doesn’t exactly believe in psychics, but he has to admit, he feels eerie about this: A clairvoyant once told...

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody may have appeared on the world stage as a confident showman, star of the Wild West show he formed in 1883. But he...

Mickey Free rode into Camp Apache on April 27, 1874, with the bloody severed head of the renegade warrior Pedro hanging from his saddle. The...

“Who was that Masked Man?” That was the question that ended each episode of ABC’s The Lone Ranger, one of the best-liked television series of the...

Was “Arizona Charlie” Meadows real? Barry Waldbaum Centereach, New York Yes, Charlie Meadows was a real person. I call him Arizona’s first...