The 1873 .45-70 Trapdoor Springfield was issued to troopers just before the Battle of Little Bighorn, and its success and failure that fateful June day in 1876 is still highly debated.

The 1873 .45-70 Trapdoor Springfield was issued to troopers just before the Battle of Little Bighorn, and its success and failure that fateful June day in 1876 is still highly debated.
From Lewis and Clark until Prohibition, the golden elixir was as good as gold.
The true story of how a small-town Texas girl became legendary madam, Big Bertha.
Known as America’s Deer Rifle, this 126-year-old lever-action is back again in its original 1890s configuration.
Pearl Hart and a posse of sharpshooting Western women shaped the West from the barroom to the courthouse.
But few know the depth of her legacy.
It was a century ago that American women were granted suffrage, but they had been proving their equality in the settlement of the West long before.
A lost family connection is reclaimed.
Sioux War Historian.
Ask The Marshall.
The Black Hills boomtown celebrates the Old West every day of the year.
A miner, a cook and a housewife all walked into a store to get groceries and supplies.