Some list this story under “Canadian folklore.” Others think it’s scary but fake. Author Barbara Smith, include it…
Senior Citizens to the Rescue Elders take their free time to restore a historic building in a pioneer Dakota Territory town.
Volunteer hours: 9,000. That’s 375 days—more than a year of nonstop labor. That’s what it took for 75 volunteers in Hank…
One Way to Save the Ranch
It was a familiar story in the Old West. Family ranch catches the eye of a cattleman’s association that wants to b…
Mangas Coloradas’ Undue Fate
There’s no way to look at the murder and mutilation of Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas without horror. He is conside…
Saving Hamley’s Saddles Parley Pearce rode in to rescue the iconic Oregon saddle shop.
In five decades, he never forgot the smell of the leather at Hamley & Co.’s saddle shop in Pendleton, Oregon. In hi…
Saved by YouTube One of Texas's most legendary hotels found rescuers on the World Wide Web.
“Grandma, you can find anything on YouTube,” Erin Ghedi’s 17-year-old granddaughter, Gabby, told her four years ag…
Buffallo Bill Busted He perfected the Wild West show, toured the world, got rich and then lost millions. What happened?
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a lucky man. From a hardscrabble youth that began in a log cabin in Iowa Territory, he g…
Keeping Movies Alive The world’s greatest collection of Western posters finds an Arizona home.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was among the first. Dr. Rennard Strickland found the movie poster for the 1962 John Fo…
Baseball’s Legacy Has Another Chapter
One of the little known stories about World War II is the part that baseball played—in the Japanese interment camps. Two…
Racism Can Get Ya Killed
RACISM CAN GET YA KILLED: That’s the message to misguided cowboys George Campbell and John Hale (who also was a dr…