Historian Andrew R Graybill’s passionate, multi-generational history, The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (Liveright...

Civil War doctor loses his family, and his right arm, to a group of psychopaths who have come to rob them, leaving everyone dying or dead. The doc...

The largest Civil War engagement within Indian Territory was the battle at Honey Springs, an important stopping point on the Texas Road, a major...

"I remember a strawberry festival that featured a huge floating island pudding,” recalled Mrs. Ford, who lived in Canyon City, Oregon, after the...

To put myself in the Christmas frame of mind, I plug in a DVD of my favorite holiday movie. But before you get the wrong idea, I’m not shouting...

Two bodies swung from the cottonwood branches in the frigid wind on the night of January 4, 1864. One had a sign pinned to the back of his coat:...

What are tintypes? Ben Hodges Everett, Washington Photographic history began in 1839, with the daguerreotype. Other processes, however, had been...

How were guns cleaned in the Old West? Ralph Bernklow Stow, Massachusetts During Marine Corps boot camp in the 1950s, I remember our drill...

Does The Searchers movie have any basis in fact? Teresa Smith Jasper, Alabama The Searchers was written loosely around the story of nine-year-old...

Most of us agree the American Cowboy was born somewhere in Texas but metaphorically speaking, where were his parents from? If we ride the backtrail...

Raised in Georgia, Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry National Center’s Gamble curator of Western History, Popular Culture and Firearms, is passionate...

In his spirited retelling of George Custer’s dramatic Civil War career, Thom Hatch pulls out all the stops in favor of the hero of his tale in...