Life was hard in Elmore Leonard’s West. Living and dying in “Leonard’s Arizona Territory” was somewhere between Heaven and Hell. His characters...

In the spring of 1889, the U.S. government faced a monumental task—opening the Unassigned Lands, nearly two million acres in modern-day central...

How do we know the tintype photo is really of Billy the Kid? Frank Cutler Sodus, New York “It is definitely Billy the Kid,” says Robert G. McCubbin,...

Did some cowboys dig up a corpse and pour whiskey down his throat? Marina Bender Mesa, Arizona That bizarre event began at the Wigwam Saloon in...

I have seen several photos on the Internet claiming to be of Doc Holliday, however, many of the facial features don’t match up. What gives? Vanessa...

In the Pancho Villa photograph, who is the man peering over Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing’s left shoulder? Huge wager on this! Your input, please....

How common was postmortem photography in the Old West? Ted Mulligen Massapequa, New York We’re all familiar with those famous photos of dead outlaws...

Publishers dealt readers a “royal flush” of Western books in 2013—big epic fiction, cutting edge new Western history and robust biographies about...

When pioneers headed West, they had to adapt their clothing to the new unchartered environs they found themselves in. They also picked up new...

Fast-riding, fearless and skilled in frontier warfare, the earliest Texas Rangers were first a deadly band of irregulars and then hardened lawmen...