On Tuesday, September 16, 1879, Fort Fred Steele’s telegrapher handed his post commander, Maj. Thomas Thornburgh, a letter. Thornburgh glanced at it...

In Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Robert DeNiro and his buddies steal some cash and use it to see The Searchers. To some, Scorsese’s tribute to an...

Cory Spotted Bear is making up for lost time. He learned about the rich heritage of his Mandan people as an adult, and now he’s bringing back a...

Dwayne Epstein’s biography of Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin: Point Blank, is a well-researched labor that he spent years completing. With the help of...

Who knew a kitchen gadget, wielded by an angry wife, could cure a drunken husband? Businessman Francis Murphy of Omaha, Nebraska, “received” the...

What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico? Tink Burris Silver City, New Mexico I believe you’re referring to the holdup by...

When the first explorers of the early 19th century ventured west beyond the Mississippi River, they carried long, slender and somewhat delicate...

Dave Mather was a man of mystery—not only in life, but also in death. “Mysterious Dave” straddled the line between outlaw and lawman, and left...

The jaundiced characterization of a dandified, belt-wearing, young riverboat hand is vintage Mark Twain—and a puzzle. After all, men seldom wore...

Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73? Steve Andrews Colorado Springs, Colorado I ran this by True West’s gun...

Howard Terpning has been described as the “finest artist of Plains Indian history” by David Joseph, when he was the owner of B&R Gallery, but...

The conflicts of Old West mining wars between labor and business spread to the fields of California agriculture in the latter stages of that era....