Best known as the “Yellowboy,” an affectionate moniker frontier Indians gave the repeater due to its shiny brass receiver, the Model 1866 was...

Sean Martin Feeney arrived in Los Angeles from Portland, Maine, in 1914 at the age of 19. Like his older brother Francis, an actor and director, he...

Called one of the last American frontiers, Marfa got its start as an 1883 water stop for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. This...

Parry Lodge (Kanab, UT): After working on the Tom Mix feature Deadwood Coach, the Parry brothers built this hotel in 1931 to feed and house movie...

Tom Mix began his career with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. From 1910-1917, he was bouncing all over the West, filming two-reelers in small towns...

For every Roy Rogers, Gene Autry or James Arness in their perfectly blocked, spotless hero hats, there is a Gabby Hayes, Slim Pickens or Ken Curtis...

Billy the Kid“Who remembers Billy the Kid?” Harvey Fergusson wrote in 1925. Today, everybody does, thanks to Walter Noble Burns’s book the following...

In 1949, in an act of profound sagacity uncommon to our normally dysfunctional state legislature, the Roadrunner was designated as the official...

"Brains or Baby?” asked Mama McDonald, as she held a rather large gun in the face of her daughter’s would-be husband in 1881. Thinking he needed his...

On the frontier folks in general disdained the banks, the railroads and the large express companies, who they felt preyed on the poor and...

With Johnny Depp riding around New Mexico this summer for Disney’s Lone Ranger—in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Shiprock and other locales—we...

He is the man everybody loves to hate. George Armstrong Custer, once one of the most admired American military heroes, has become, in our time, one...