The Big Trail, director Raoul Walsh’s epic covered wagon frontier Western, keeps getting better and better. Released in 1930, it was everything a...

Henry Fonda was rounding 60 when he started working in a handsome number of Westerns, particularly 1965’s The Rounders, directed by Burt Kennedy....

Harley Brown is a man of many faces. He is Canadian. He has a Russian alter ego. He was an English expatriate. But above all else, he is an artist....

1. For a bicycling adventure you’ll talk about for years, ride the Route of the Hiawatha, crossing the rugged Bitterroot Mountains. Pass through...

In a country that is quickly becoming McDonald’s-ized, it’s comforting—and fattening—to find institutions across the West serving grub the way it...

“It was pretty tough in those times,” Mrs. Bell Mattison recalled about her years in Fillmore County, Nebraska, after she moved there with her...

The year 2012 is shaping up to be an incredible one for Howard Terpning and the art collectors who admire his work. At the Scottsdale Art Auction,...

When he appears in history, William Temple Hornaday almost always shows up in sentences that include names like Teddy Roosevelt or Gifford Pinchot....

The old saying “if walls could talk” has a breathtaking implication when those walls are in the Magoffin Home in El Paso, Texas. This 1875 adobe...

Strange things seem to happen in the Colorado mountains. Alferd Packer “et” some of his traveling buddies there in the early 1870s, and it’s where...

Sioux War Dispatches Other than Mark Kellogg at the Little Big Horn, no newspaper correspondents lost their lives during the Great Sioux War, and...

This book really isn’t about Hugh Glass per sé, but about Glass’s affect on our national persona and how we like to make heroes out of blackguards...