"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...

"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...
It was quite natural for Wyatt Earp to gravitate to Gower Gulch, the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, where...
It was quite natural for Wyatt Earp to gravitate to Gower Gulch, the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, where...
His story, said Bat Masterson, was the story of the West. For years Wyatt Earp was reluctant to tell it. But as some began to resurrect his...
A Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. New Mexico History MuseumCentennial Exhibits Santa Fe, NM: Learn about the first...
“I had a cowboy who came to one of my shows and exclaimed, ‘This isn’t Western art!’” Thom Ross says. “And every painting was of Billy the Kid, Doc...
There are a lot of tall tales about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This is not one of them. No, this is a short reminder of...
Sam Lowe’s Jerks in Arizona History is even stranger than its title. This book consists of an 18-chapter hodgepodge about nearly every crook, train...
For the first time, one book has managed to provide a comprehensive survey of watercolor works by master artist Charles M. Russell. Even more...