You could find just about everything good and bad about the buying and selling of Old West artifacts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this past July...

October 14, 1882 John J. Cozad is negotiating a trade in the Bee Hive General Store, which is run by his mother-in-law, Julia A. Gatewood, who sits...

Have you ever wanted to own a gun used in a Western film by one of your favorite cowboy stars…or even one packed by one of the supporting actors in...

Did you ever look inside your Stetson and wonder who painted the poignant rendering of a cowboy watering his horse from his hat? In my humble...

For Charles Stewart Stobie, the decision to travel from Eastern cities to the Indian lands in the rugged American West would last a lifetime....

One of the most intriguing mysteries of the Old West concerns the disappearance of the Kansas murder family known as the Benders. From October 1870...

When introduced to the world as Greta Garbo’s young lover in Camille, Robert Taylor was promoted as the  “Male Garbo.” Movie after movie focused on...

In November 8, 1887, gambler and gunfighter John Henry “Doc” Holliday finally played his last hand, succumbing to the tuberculosis that dogged him...

The history of New Mexico is long and complex. The collaborative effort of authors Joseph P. Sánchez, Robert L. Spude and Art Gómez, New Mexico: A...

The California Gold Rush never stops inspiring stories, and now we have Malcolm J. Rohrbough’s Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold...

If you like shoot-’em-ups and have never heard of Tom Bell, Jeff Milton or Rufus Buck, then you might enjoy this modest volume. Robert Barr Smith’s...

Over the last century, critics have struggled with categorizing the literature of the American West, sweeping laureates of the genre such as Mark...