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....

On this summer month, when most Civil War minds think about the events 150 years ago at a town called Gettysburg, I’d like to draw your attention to...

July 19, 1878 As a raging fire engulfs another room, Alexander McSween and his men move into the kitchen, the last standing room of his adobe home...