As with most controversial episodes in American history, two sides exist for this story. Paul R. Petersen takes the reader to the summer of 1863 and...

Standing in front of the gallows at Fort Smith National Historic Site, I’m overcome by history. Just up those steps, the Dalton brothers became...

I welcome travel in areas where no vehicles are allowed, because it means fewer of us and more of the “wild” out in the wilderness. In Banff...

At the end of a perfect road trip would be a honky-tonk saloon pouring 50-cent drafts, a jukebox filled with 45s and Gretchen Wilson singing her...

Long before the 1993 movie Tombstone was produced, the screenplay by Kevin Jarre had gotten the attention of a great many people. Everybody who read...

I bet Harry Jackson would have been happy to find out artworks from his estate were sold at the prestigious Coeur d’Alene Art Auction in Reno,...

As the sun reaches high in the baking Nevada sky, two steely-eyed gunmen slowly walk toward each other in the dusty street. Each man’s cold stare...

Buck Taylor’s as elusive as Ike Clanton was during Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Ride. So after better than a year of hounding him for an interview, when I...

“…I helped put in the corn, and on the hills I picked green huckleberries to make a pie. I picked ripe huckleberries, walked a mile and a half to...

As we commemorate the Civil War, all eyes should also look to Topeka, where, in 1855, Free State delegates assembled to draft a constitution that...

October 26, 1881 Plus: Did Wyatt Earp Shoot Morgan in the Back? Come along,” says Virgil Earp, as he hands a Wells, Fargo & Co. shotgun to Doc...

Others may call Dave Powell the reincarnation of Charlie Russell, but we see a modern, if traditional, man with a new vision for cowboy art. That...