Folks in the Pacific Northwest called Charles Hopkins the “Tattooed Bandit” or “True Love Bandit.” Others knew him as the second Harry Tracy—as if...

Casting a woman in a male role makes sense. After all, Linda Hunt won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an...

When the beloved man’s funeral cortege passed the Adams Museum on March 3, 1943, a bell began tolling. It rang 77 times, matching the years of his...

When Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp utters his death-defying oath, “You tell ’em I’m coming, and Hell is coming with me, you hear!” with Biblical...

Even though Kit Carson’s battle at Adobe Walls was a major engagement, historians have written little about it. Most people know Carson for his...

October 5, 1871 The summer cattle season is all but over, and Marshal Wild Bill Hickok has kept the peace in Abilene, Kansas—not an easy job. The...

They said Cattle Kate was a dirty rustler and a filthy whore. They cried out, “rangeland justice,” when she became the only woman ever lynched in...

From 1880 to 1918, Fort Worth struggled to grow into a “city of substance.” During the 1880s, it became a major railroad hub. However, Fort Worth...

Thanks to an unlikely visionary’s humble efforts to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley and nearby giant redwoods, new generations of adventurers...

(Warner Archive, $40.99) This collection of seven Johnny Mack Brown “Nevada Jack McKenzie” adventures, plus a bonus pair, demonstrates why Brown,...

What happened to Old West gunman “Mysterious” Dave Mather? Johnny “Arizona” Crawley Salem, Oregon Well, that is a mystery. Dave Mather was born in...

In the cowboy song “Old Paint,” the singer sings, “I lead an old Dan,” that he’s on his way to Montana to “throw the hoolihan” and that the “fiery...