#1 Fort Smith, Arkansas Location is everything in real estate. It’s also pretty darned important in history. The western Arkansas town of Fort Smith...

About a decade ago, someone, I think it was Gus “The Mapinator” Walker, noticed that a random photo of a Pamunkey Indian in our archives had a...

On the morning of June 1, 1864, a group of 100 volunteers gathered at King Woolsey’s fortified ranch house to form a raiding party to pursue Apaches...

Following Geronimo’s third and final breakout from the White Mountain Apache reservation in May 1885, first Gen. George Crook, then Gen. Nelson A....

The Canadian prairies were anything but polite in 1885. In southwestern Alberta, rancher William Cochrane wrote his father: “There is a great deal...

A lot of folks out there are investigating history—and that’s a good thing, or else this column would not exist and yours truly might be out of a...

Dutch Oven Wally Roberts is trying to kill me. If there’s a cowboy event or trail ride in West Texas or New Mexico, chances are you’ll find Roberts...

November 27, 1887 Working out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Deputy U.S. Marshal Frank Dalton, is tracking a horse thief in the Cherokee Nation named Dave...

During the Canadian River Campaign of 1858, Texas Ranger Capt. John “Rip” Ford wore his striped trousers tucked into heavy-top boots. In the most...

"I made a splendid batch of bread the day we came.... Besides the bother of making bread so often, we have to make the yeast here about once a week....

What was it John Wayne said in Red River? “Ten miles a day will be good. Fifteen will be luck.” Sounds just about right. I’m inching my way toward...