In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan charts the career of Curtis from as far...

"Reader, when at the big hotels, call for the dish on the bill of fare called, ‘fillet de bouf et pommes de terre hachis a l’Hibernais,’ and you...

I haven’t seen this many people on a college campus since I was making my way around the University of Texas in Austin for a Bruce Springsteen...

The infamous Wild Bunch made a trip to Fort Worth, Texas, in November 1900 to attend the wedding of gang member Will Carver to Callie May Hunt, one...

Frank Butler, Annie Oakley’s husband, has to be one of the most unjustly maligned figures in the American West. Films portray him as a philandering...

Virtually every lever-action rifle today silently pays tribute to the granddaddy of lever guns designed over 150 years ago. One of the major...

I first read about Tap Duncan when I was eight years old. My parents gave me a book about Old West outlaws, lawmen and gunfighters (which I loved...

He was a 24-year-old New Yorker who wanted to kill a buffalo. That’s how Theodore Roosevelt first came to the Medora area of Dakota Territory in...

The dawning of the 20th century brought little improvement to the notorious reputation Arizona had earned during the tumultuous years of outlawry...