What can you tell me about Virgil Earp’s time in Colton, California? Joe Amason Delano, California While recuperating from wounds that had shattered...

Arizona and Western history are synonymous since Arizona was basically the last frontier. The state’s history is rich in Western lore—rich mineral...

In 1992, American Heritage magazine asked historians, artists and novelists to name their favorite American historical novel. The overwhelming...

A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOW The West Select Phoenix, AZ, Closes Dec. 28: Western art sale and...

In the morning of Sept. 28, 1874, Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his Fourth Cavalry swept into Palo Duro Canyon. The soldiers burned Indian camps,...

The Colorado city of Colorado Springs hasn’t been lucky when it comes to forest fires. The Black Forest Fire of 2013 and the Waldo Canyon Fire of...

Charles Goodnight—the “Father of the Texas Panhandle”—was not a man who took no for an answer. In 1877, when he ordered his brothers-in-law to build...

As the American colonists made their Declaration of Independence from the British monarchy on July 4, 1776, a chain reaction of political events...

Was Bat Masterson as handy with his fists as he was with a gun? Jim Gaines Orangevale, California Bat Masterson lived and worked in a...

When Director William Castle was grinding through his last Western film, 1955’s Duel on the Mississippi, B-movie immortality probably wasn’t on his...

The Warner Archive release of Delmer Daves’s 1954 Drum Beat is cause for celebration. Daves’s Western classics in-clude the original 3:10 to Yuma,...

Paul Cool is an investigative historian, with the knowledge of a trained attorney and the experience to seek the truth in the details after more...