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...

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...