Was there a female Texas Ranger during the Old West era? Kim Adrian Davenport, Iowa Not in the Old West. The Texas Rangers are an elite division of...

How did “being heeled” come to mean “being armed?” Bill Murray Pleasant View, Utah “Being heeled” is tied to the term “well-heeled,” which means...

A gambler in a high-stakes poker game runs out of money while holding a winning hand of four aces. He asks the players to pause the game so he can...

Do any records indicate Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok met? John McCaffer Queen Creek, Arizona Wild Bill Hickok biographer Joe Rosa clears up the...

In 1960’s The Alamo, Jim Bowie used a seven-barrel pepperbox rifle. Did such a gun exist? And did the real Bowie have one? Joe “Doc” Amason Delano,...

What most don’t know about Doc Holliday is that he didn’t go west for his health. Some report he left Georgia because of a wandering spirit, or, as...

No doubt about it. Western movies were reborn in 1939, catapulting the genre into big-time Hollywood that lasted some 60 years. Stagecoach, Destry...

The Little Big Horn battlefield is the site of exquisite tragedy and triumph—depending on whose eyes are watching: tragedy for Lt. Col. George...

Tom Horn occupies a prominent, if controversial, place in frontier annals. While he had a varied career in his 43 years—miner, cowpuncher, pioneer...

The 1908 Christmas holidays weren’t good for Manny Clements. In fact, the year’s end brought about his end as well. That Manny would have a violent...

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...