To the Lakota, it was the Moonshell River; to the French explorers, La Rivière North Platte; to the Americans, the North Platte. Whatever its name,...

The Hill Country in Texas is steeped in rich history, and you can still step back in time when you visit. The area boasts historic sites, music,...

One can hardly envision Tucson when J. Ross Browne saw it in the 1860s, “…a city of mud boxes, dingy and dilapidated, cracked and baked into a...

In the summer of 1899, the sleepy fishing village of Nome, close to the Arctic Circle, remote even by Alaskan standards, became one of the most...

During the 1960s, when Philadelphia’s channel 48 ran Satan’s Satellites, I had no idea I was munching popcorn through a serial (Zombies of the...

A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOWS Cowgirl Up! Wickenburg, AZ, April 1-30: Opening gala at the Desert...

Nobody warned me about this. Oh sure, the folks in charge of mule rides at Grand Canyon National Park gave me that spiel about safety and risks,...

Louis Eppinger, a five-foot-four, brown-eyed German immigrant, arrived in America in 1848. From the 1850s to the late 1880s, he managed and owned...

If the old girl were still around—if Madam Jennie Bauters could see her “crib” and hotel now—she’d probably fan herself with an ostrich feather and...

Victor Carl Friesen is the kind of scholarly guy you’d like to have a beer with and talk Westerns. In his study Zane Grey’s Wild West: A Study of 31...

Were Freemasons prevalent in the Old West? Bill Calloway Wilmington, Delaware Freemasons were common in the United States in the 19th century, so a...

Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The...