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...

What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer? Nick R. Chilton Marion, Ohio Judge Wells Spicer—who presided at the inquest into the O.K. Corral...

Who was the greatest of the bank and train robbers? Dan Clutter Denison, Iowa I would have to go with Indian Territory outlaw Henry Starr, a...

Did Wyatt Earp ever drive or own a car? Jeff King Washington, D.C. True West has a photo of Wyatt Earp standing next to a car, what appears to be a...

The California Trail conjures up images of emigrants and gold seekers, mountain men and Mormons, as well as the hopefulness of new lands that...

There were no roads; no towns. The extreme summer heat and winter cold were almost unbearable. But from a former Civil War-ambulance pulled by four...

Who is Drew Thompson? That was the single thread of FX’s Justified’s fourth season, with a mystery structure carrying the episodes, rather than hard...