Chinese laborers played a prominent role in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, and they were equally instrumental in mining...

Sam Baldwin, who roamed this island of Hawaii in the early 20th century, wrote of a day-long ride to capture cattle that took him across 25 miles of...

What’s with the jokes on Kansas being flat? Come on people! Mount Sunflower, our highest point, is 4,039 feet. We have the Arikaree Breaks, the...

In 1941, Cleaveland wrote her memoir No Life for a Lady about growing up on a New Mexico cattle ranch where she was born in 1874. Through the...

While nearly everyone knows the song ''The Streets of Laredo,'' not everyone knows it was actually a reworked old Irish tune called “The Cowboy’s...

The author’s easy prose takes his readers along the journey of Will Rogers’ life. Not just a humorist, movie star or newspaper columnist, Rogers was...

Westward Migration and Manifest Destiny brought hundreds of thousands of folks out West, not the least of which was the cowboy. Roughly one in four...

Thank God—a book that looks past Tombstone to share the exploits of the West! Respected historian Dugan tells the story of a small-time Midwestern...

Let’s get this straight—author Herda channels Doc, who tells his tale in his own words. It could be an interesting approach, except the deadly...

As folks are being reintroduced to the Western classic True Grit, a topic at some dinner tables has been the appeal of executions, especially since...

Seven Men from Now is the first, best and least-known of the seven films Producer-star Randolph Scott and Director Budd Boetticher made together....