As a volunteer at Arizona’s Lost Dutchman State Park, Mitzi Rinehart thought the most oft-asked question she’d ever answer was “Where’s the Gold?”...

James Coryells’s sweet tooth proved fatal. On May 27, 1837, the Texas Ranger and four or five fellow Rangers headed out from Fort Milam, a frontier...

Cowboys had little time for breakfast, which must be eaten quickly and with no fuss. “Each man, as he comes up, grasps a tin cup and plate from the...

One of the most unpredictable, harrowing, sometimes embarrassing and always painful misfortunes that a cowboy could expect in the Old West was being...

                    Eschewing the bustle for the hustle, rodeo cowgirls donned long, wide-legged...

Frederic Remington’s bronzes took in most of the top Western art bids at Altermann’s auction on November 14, 2010, yet the bottom five of the top 10...

January 28, 1861 John Ward rides 11 miles to petition Fort Buchanan commander Lt. Col. Pitcairn Morrison to help recover Ward’s stepson Felix, who...

With the Coen brothers’ remake of 1968’s True Grit, everybody seems to be comparing Jeff Bridges’ Rooster Cogburn to John Wayne’s Academy...