On January 1, 1889, the Northern Paiute medicine man Wovoka was recovering after nearly dying from scarlet fever. As a total solar eclipse darkened...

“They say my bowie knife is keen to sliver into halves The carcass of my enemy, as butchers slay their calves.” These two bloodthirsty lines...

What we learned over the past year is this: Communication is important, even in museums. In August 2013, History Colorado Center closed its exhibit...

"The only kind of heroine worth knowing about is the Western woman who hit the far trail holding a Springfield rifle and traveling with her kids and...

The harsh winter of 1882 was finally melting away as both the kid and his horse resembling starved scarecrows made their way down the snow packed...

Early on the morning of July 18, 1881, mail contractor Michael Cosgrove pulled into Las Vegas direct from Fort Sumner with the biggest news ever to...

Who is buried behind the Tunstall store in Lincoln, New Mexico? Steven Kretschmer Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico Lincoln County historian Drew...

Where were Belle Starr and Jim Reed married, and did Frank and Jesse James attend the wedding? Ed Kunkel Muldrow, Oklahoma According to the couple’s...

In a photo of six cowboys, two of them smoke pipes with the bowls turned upside down. Why? Irv Ferguson Coolidge, Arizona Cowboys smoking with the...

Why do some sheriff’s and marshal’s badges have five points or six points? Pam Stockton Mountain Home, Arkansas Peace officers, then and now, can...

• His teeth appear to confirm what a contemporary said about the Kid:?“He could eat pumpkins through a picket fence.” • The photo assistant’s hand...

Blazing Saddles, the 40th Anniversary edition, marks more than the return of Mel Brooks’s incredibly successful Western farce—it reflects the...