One of the first true international superstar entertainers, Buffalo Bill Cody earned worldwide notoriety for his Wild West show, which toured North...

Buffalo Bill Cody was one of a handful of civilian scouts ever awarded the Medal of Honor for courage in battle. Yet his mettle would be tested many...

July 29, 1884 Corporal Phillip Cuney Baird of the Texas Rangers is ready to catch some fence cutters. The previous night, he led Pvts. W.A....

The American West, imagined and celebrated worldwide in art and literature, film and television, is equally a land of grace and grief. Since...

San Francisco, 1853: As traveler John Steele strolled along a bustling thoroughfare, he suddenly found himself being crowded against a doorway and...

Steve McQueen and troubled productions seemed to be synonymous. Look at any one of his classic films—The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The...

Since arriving in Arizona Territory in 1881, Tom Horn had spent much of his time in the employ of the federal government, as an employee of the army...

When Director Michael Curtiz was shooting 1954’s The Boy from Oklahoma, he probably never imagined this easygoing vehicle for Will Rogers Jr. would...

Croquettes first appeared on English dinner tables in the 18th century. In the mid-1800s, Americans knew croquet as a lawn game. The food version...

Who is the most popular character the Old West ever produced? Ronnie Bishop Nashville, Tennessee Hard to say—and it depends on whether we’re talking...