By early 1959, when these episodes of the number one show on TV aired, all three networks were loading their prime-time slots with Westerns that...

Clint Walker never really made sense; he was six feet, six inches tall and made average men look and feel like Mickey Rooney standing next to him....

Y'know, my python boot is too tight, I couldn't get it off last night. A week went by, and now it's July. I finally got it off, and my girlfriend...

Our collective American snapshot history began when George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera and roll film in 1888. As the years went on, more and...

By 1880, the great herds of buffalo—estimated at 60 million in America—were all but gone, leaving behind them a dismal story of human greed and...

If the Colorado River is the “American Nile,” as some fanciful writers have called it, was there a Cleopatra along its banks? More than one woman...

John Franklin Cogburn, nicknamed “Rooster” by his Uncle Page, was my great-grandfather. While he never packed a badge, Franklin was quite familiar...

Fort Smith was once the last bastion of law and order before the wild frontier. In the heyday of Fort Smith, a popular saying went, “There is no law...

For Ronnie O’Brien, her connection to Kearney begins in 1842 in Ireland and ends more than a century and a half later in Nebraska. Her husband’s...

True Grit is an American masterpiece. The success of the film by Joel and Ethan Coen has surprised pundits and led, yet again, to predictions of the...

The Civil War and the American West are forever connected. The Battle of Glorieta Pass occurred in March 1862, but folks re-enact it every May at El...

We recently posed the question in our online community; “How long to haul your horse in a single day?”  What we got back was more than we...