Olive trees made their way to California by way of the Spanish Missions run by Franciscan priests who imported the trees in the 1700s. By the...

Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson remained fairly loyal to each other over the years.  Considering their self-serving natures, how did that...

Where does “Arizona” come from? Daniel Welsch Madrid, Spain Some claim the Southwestern state’s name comes from the Spanish zona arida, translated...

To what extent did telegraph companies help open the West? Patrick Edwards Monson, Massachusetts Long-distance telegraphs first exchanged complex...

A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOWS Quest For The West Art Show And SaleIndianapolis, IN, September 5-7:...

Author Michael Zimmer was raised in Colorado, where he learned to break horses at a young age. Later, after his family moved to Indiana, he dreamt...

In 1877 the New York World opined that “the western states and territories occupy vast tracts, empires in themselves, and their rapid settlement...

Robert M. Utley, editor and annotator of An Army Doctor on the Western Frontier: Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864-1890...

Mojave (Pinnacle, $6.99), one of the better Western novels to come along in years, is proof that author Johnny D. Boggs is indeed one of the top...

Set in 1876 San Francisco, California, against the backdrop of a smallpox epidemic and seething racial tensions, Emma Donoghue’s exquisitely crafted...

Robert O’Connell’s brilliant biography, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House, $28), is a well-researched...