Franklin Graves lay dying. On Christmas Day, 1846, he called his 19-year-old daughter, Mary, to his side. “You have to do whatever you can to stay...

The only market that Texans can rely on at present for their stock is Bakster [sic] Springs, Kansas …” a Texas drover wrote from present-day...

Former Cochise County ranch wife Joyce Aros was, she writes, “exposed for a time to some old-time cowboys.” From there she makes a leap of faith...

Italy had its banditti, Spain and Mexico their banditos. But when Americans sought a synonym for the clumsy “tycoon,” they reached all the way back...

John Wayne liked J.R.R. Tolkien. That’s a fact in Scott Eyman’s new biography John Wayne: The Life and Legend. Where other biographers have...

Will Bagley, today’s most knowledgeable historian of the overland trails experience, has focused his narrative expertise on the most important point...

For over half a century, author Larry McMurtry has brought the West alive to readers through his lean, lyrical prose. His personal experiences...

The stars fill the dark sky. The night is deadly cold in the winter of 1872. Near Cape Nome, Alaska, the dead are seen trying to return to this...

True giants don’t need to declare themselves, they just are, and William Blinn, the quiet man from Ohio, is a true giant. Blinn has a talent for...

A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ANIMAL ADOPTIONS Miles City Bucking Horse Sale Miles City, MT, May 15-18: Watch...