In 1898, Albert Afraid of Hawk had the opportunity of a lifetime. He was hired as a performer with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West, heady stuff for an...

"Mother said to father, while on the train and looking at the herds of cattle through the window: ‘We can be sure of one item of food and that is...

Joan Anderson Meacham remembers being “so irritated and angry.” In 1979, the educated, 44 year old serving on the Advisory Committee on the Status...

April 7, 1859 After months on the trail from California’s Fort Tejon, Samuel Bishop and 23 volunteers mount 20 camels and a couple mules at one in...

"Go west young man and grow with the country,” wrote one news reporter, and, at 17, Jack Swilling went west to do just that. Born John William...

"I prefer working where I can control things, and you can’t outdoors.” The surprising, almost stunning, part about that quote is that it came from...

Despite the television show’s invitation to return to “those thrilling days of yesteryear,” The Lone Ranger of the 1950s depicted times, places and...

On Christmas Eve in 1986, Clayton Moore flew into Houston, Texas, and discovered his luggage was lost, an unfortunate, but rather commonplace, event...

Regardless of whether a frontiersman carried a simple pocket-sized folding knife, a skinner, a camp knife or a full-sized fighting blade, he...

Like a heroic Mexican corrido, historian-musician Mark Lee Gardner’s Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s...

Frontier Cavalry Trooper: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869-1874, edited by Douglas C. McChristian, is a rarity amidst the books, diaries...

In Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern, Melody Graulich and Nicholas S. Witschi offer a smart collection of 11 essays that...