“At Healdsburg, the first county fair, we received a silver butter knife for the best butter,” recalled Mrs. Eliza Gregson, who had arrived in...

The dictionary defines a “feud” as a “long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans.” This...

In the late summer of 1895, El Paso, Texas, was John Wesley Hardin’s town. A few months earlier, the attorney had been brought in to help his...

“God created men; Col. Colt made them equal.” So goes the oft-repeated quote about Col. Samuel Colt and his legendary firearms. Yet Col. Colt made...

Gary Barker could tell you how old log cabins fall apart. He had spent a decade as a YMCA camp caretaker in Minnesota, using best guesses, luck and...

Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West ADVENTURES Beginner Horsemanship & Confidence Building Seminar Gila, NM,...

  I fell in love with the West when I first heard the story of my maternal ancestors crossing the Oregon Trail in 1851 to settle the territory...

Hatred, especially racial hatred, was, like greed, a powerful force in the West of 1871. Scott Zesch reminds us in The Chinatown War of a massacre...

The Homesman will be Tommy Lee Jones’s next project, and, like in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Jones will act, produce and direct....

The bounty hunter film, They Die By Dawn, is “set in 1890 with every single black actor in Hollywood, swagged out cowboy style,” says Jeymes Samuel,...

Jane Got a Gun will star producer and actress Natalie Portman, who recently won an Academy Award for her role in Black Swan. This story centers on...

A preview of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is now available on YouTube. The other big news is that Kurt Russell, who worked with Tarantino in...