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...

The desperate clash between 14 Texas Rangers led by John Coffee Hays and 70 or more Comanches in the Texas Hill Country in June 1844 left 23...

There are two sides to every story, and the greatest thing about the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming is that you can hear and see both...

A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ADVENTURE Kit Carson Wagon Train Monte Vista, CO, July 25-28: Named after...

The Fourth of July celebrations were the great events in our lives,” recalled Mrs. Ford, who lived in Canyon City, Oregon, after the 1862 gold...

America was preparing to enter her 100th anniversary of independence, the nation’s firearms industry was a veritable beehive of activity. To fulfill...

A university student had argued that Geronimo was an alcoholic, a habit that likely caused some of the problems faced by the Apaches. The professor,...