Yellowstone, America’s first National Park, celebrates its 150th anniversary. Ferdinand V. Hayden, head of the U.S. Geological and Geographic...
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Red Lodge, Montana
Discover the Old West in the gateway town to America’s most beautiful highway. Heading southwest across the high plains of south-central...
Wild Bill, Bearded Indians and Banks
Can you tell me why Wild Bill Hickok wore his guns backwards? Bob Hite (Kinship Productions Pine Island Sound, Florida) Many successful...
The Wildest Town in Indian Territory
Muskogee, Oklahoma’s early years as a frontier outpost were violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Welcome to Muskogee, the rip-roaring and most...
The West’s Worst Shootout
The tragedy at Goingsnake left 11 men dead—and a lot of questions. Ezekiel Proctor was a Cherokee and proud of it. “Zeke” had walked...
Bat Masterson
The deadly and dangerous life of the man who invented Wyatt Earp. Thanks to a 1960s television show starring Gene Barry, Bat Masterson was called a...
Get Out of Dodge!
Since Dodge City was founded 150 years ago, the Kansas cowtown is still the reigning queen of the West. “Queen of the Cowtowns” was the...
Alaska’s Wild West
Adventure and history await discovery across the Last Frontier State. Several years ago, I was a long-term substitute teacher in the Yup’ik...
Gunpowder and Smoke
The West was immense, and frontier law enforcement sparse. Wise individuals carried firearms and knew how to use them. Some men and women became...
Ditch the Derby
One of the problems Bat Masterson has in terms of his Old West legend is he is typecast as a city slicker, always wearing a derby. But the real Bat...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Saying “If you sit around a campfire long enough, everyone becomes a storyteller.” Quotes “It may be that them whose pleasure...
Deadly Gunplay
Charles M. Russell’s 1908 Smoke of a .45 captures the violent chaos caused by short tempers and whiskey on the Western frontier. Courtesy Google Art...