All across the Pacific Northwest are reminders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06, although no tangible physical evidence remains. There...

Late last year, our publisher emeritus, Robert G. McCubbin, received a phone call from a gentleman, whose family had formerly lived in Silver City,...

In the “Wyatt Earp: The Tombstone Vendetta” episode of Gunslingers, a weathered Kurt Russell states, “The O.K. Corral is the greatest gunslinger...

Nearly two dozen Texas gunmen rode a specially outfitted railroad car into Casper, Wyoming, on April 5, 1892. They disembarked well before sunrise,...

Born in 1828 to the Southern Cheyenne tribe, Tak-kee-o-mah, or Little Robe, was raised a warrior, his skills honed in combat with traditional...

July 14, 1881 At about nine p.m. Sheriff Pat Garrett and two deputies, John Poe and Tom “Kip” McKinney, ensconce themselves within a peach orchard...

  I collect art because it surprises me. The same painting can look different every day. It’s always changing. I’ve lived a lot of places, but,...

It’s not the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., nor Judge Isaac Parker’s courthouse in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It’s not even here anymore, but...

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...