If ever a young cowhand needs both luck and grit it’s Chinook Shannon in L. Ron Hubbard’s Cattle King for a Day. With just 24 hours to kill a...

A treasure trove of Western dinnerware, this lavishly-illustrated book covers its manufacture, design and historical significance, and even shares...

From 1821-80 the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, teemed with creaking wagons, ornery mules, spunky pioneers and...

Mary Grimes recounts the remarkable lives of her parents in great detail. She was a county school superintendent, and he was a three-term governor...

If anything, Daniel Herman’s treatment of the Rim Country War in 1880s Arizona is thought provoking (most of you know it as the Pleasant Valley...

Rhonda Lopez presents the stories of eight exceptional women ranchers in a somewhat unconventional style: interviews. As such, we read the women’s...

Not only is this a great history of the infamous Valley Ranch and the area of Yellowstone, but it is also a terrific insight into the beginnings of...

Arriving with his dad and uncle in 1889 to homestead the lower end of Utah’s Desolation Canyon where Florence Creek empties into the Green River,...

The Oklahoma town of Enid—population 50,000—is near where J.D. Payne ran cattle at his Skeleton Ranch, which became a stage station on the Chisholm...

Shane has always been a favorite of mine. I especially enjoy the way Ben Johnson played that bad guy who got redeemed. I liked making the 1991 movie...

Since October 1877, Fort Chadbourne, north of Bronte, Texas, has been the same family’s ranching headquarters. Known then as the OD Ranch, Thomas...

Growing up I heard the inspirational story of Lemuel Bolz, a 16-year-old relative who crossed four states on horseback in the late 19th century....