In February 15, 1900, as the train slowly steamed to a stop at the Fairbank, Arizona, station, members of the notorious Stiles-Alvord outlaw gang...

Where the infinite Southwestern horizon divides the world’s deepest chasm from an ever-changing celestial palette, man’s recent arrival is marked by...

February 1, 1896 Albert Jennings Fountain is agitated. It’s cold and windy, and his young son is coming down with a cold. Fountain is anxious to get...

“One must draw their own conclusion regarding the history of this jacket based on the documentation!” Rock Island Auction told collectors in its...

Vanette Johnston was moved to tears when Western Writers of America (WWA) inducted her late husband Terry C. Johnston into the Western Writers Hall...

Historic eras come and go. The Era of Good Feelings. The Roaring Twenties. The Gilded Age. None, though, has captured the popular imagination like...

For his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, Cody and his promoters frequently enhanced stories from his days in the Pony Express, Civil War and buffalo...

Most True West readers are familiar with the name Earp, but more likely with Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren. You may know Josephine and...

For the 57-year-old lawman, his was an undignified death. Pat Garrett was urinating on the side of the road to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about four...

  History has taught me, via the war, that I am lucky to be alive, and freedom is not free. I got the part in 26 Men when my agent, Harold...

Only John Ford won four Oscars for best director (and two more for documentaries), and he helped invent the Western movie genre. Yet while revered...