Tombstone got its start when Ed Schieffelin set out to prospect the desolate hills east of the San Pedro River in 1877. Friends, worried about his...

One may expect that basic kitchen staples, like flour, sugar and butter, on the frontier were identical to what cooks use today, but our...

March brings madness to the entire United States, where fools everywhere pay more attention to their NCAA college basketball bracket than Louis...

Jack London was only 21 years old when he stepped ashore in Alaska in 1897 to find his fortune in gold. He looked boyish and threadbare, as did many...

Perhaps the greatest example in the Old West of making lemonade out of lemons is what happened in Dakota Territory in the 1870s. That’s when the...

On May 10, 1875, a new judge came to the bench in Fort Smith, Arkansas. His territory covered about 74,000 square miles in parts of Arkansas and the...

Ann Kirschner, university dean of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, is a strong and determined historian who finds...

Shadow on the Mesa ($15) is a solid Western from Hallmark, starring Kevin Sorbo, Greg Evigan and Barry Corbin. They offer fine support to Wes...

This is a fine look at an important part of Montana history: how Montana transformed from territory to statehood while profoundly influenced by...

WILLA-award-winning author Amy Hale Auker has been an essayist, until Winter of Beauty (Pen-L Publishing, $14.97). The story is mainly about Shiney,...

Art of the American Frontier: From the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (Yale University Press, $45) accompanies a major exhibition of paintings,...