With all the pomp the Spanish officer could muster so far from present-day Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lt. Facundo Melgares rode into the sprawling Pawnee...

Frankly, I don’t get re-enactors. Like that overweight, redneck Civil War buff I saw years back, firing his musket, then yelling at advancing Yankee...

Top 10 True Western Towns - What makes a True Western Town? Well, there’s history, of course. Whether it’s about lawmen and gunfighters, ranchers...

“I have been nearly driven to distraction!” So said Victoria Zaff Behan, with the culprit being her well-known husband, John Harris Behan. This was...

During the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, Touch The Clouds took his band of Minneconjou Teton followers to the Spotted Tail Agency in northwestern...

  Mountain Man Hugh Glass was a larger-than-life character in a stage filled with an ensemble of compelling players. His legendary status in...

Before gold was discovered in January 1848 at Sutter’s Mill on the South Fork of the American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas east of...

Was Billy the Kid’s girlfriend pregnant at the time he was killed? Paul Cullor Prescott, Arizona Some experts think so. In The West of Billy the...

How many men did Doc Holliday kill? Russ Charles Albuquerque, New Mexico John Henry “Doc” Holliday’s reputation as the “deadly dentist” is greatly...

When were boots and shoes fitted for left and right feet? Larry Smith Scottsdale, Arizona Left- and right-footed shoes were introduced first by...

What is known about a couple of outlaws called Harpe? Walter Sarafin Shawnee, Kansas Wiley “Little” Harpe and Micajah “Big” Harpe are dubiously...

  Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell Omaha, NE,...