You could read 100 books on the American West and never hear the voice of a woman. You hear the gunslingers and the sheriffs and the Indian chiefs,...

On March 27, 1836, Mexican troops placed a wounded Texian officer in a chair in the courtyard of Fort Defiance. His back was to a 1779 Catholic...

“Unaccustomed to the easy-going life of their Mexican neighbors, [old-timers] were not contented to farm a little, eat a frugal meal of frijoles,...

In the Old West, the rancher’s cupboard contained a myriad of hazardous substances, ranging from rat poison and lye (caustic soda for making soap)...

Derived from the French word for land, terroir signals those unique characteristics vineyards of a specific region share. The combination of soil...

“In the name of the eternal fitness of things, has not this cowboy-Indian obsession gone far enough?” reported Moving Picture World in December...

A whiff of bait ’n’ switch has always circled this series, which ran for two seasons, 1959-61, on NBC. The idea was that Henry Fonda, as Chief...

Wagon Train deserves its reputation, largely due to the guiding presence of the great Ward Bond as Maj. Seth Adams, who played the fair-but-grumpy...