She was a 23-year-old pioneer woman in 1882 when she and her husband arrived in a covered wagon in Arizona Territory from Utah. With a group of 18...

She's remembered in history as Big Nose Kate and as Doc Holliday's on-again-off-again girlfriend. And sure, she had a large nose, but she also had...

  You've got to feel sorry for Elmer McCurdy—not for his miserable life, but for the miserable 60 years after his death. This bank and train...

In 1852, the month of May started off seeing the birth of Martha Jane Canary, who became Calamity Jane. Fittingly, she shared her birth month with...

Lots of people get credit for settling the west—trappers, explorers, miners, the military, ranchers, homesteaders, even gunslingers—but religious...

It took careful planning to figure out what food to take on a wagon train. Everything to feed a family for months—except game, which hopefully would...

Have you heard the tale about the teacher who inspired a seventh-grade class to dig up an 1800s Montana fur trapper buried by a California freeway...

For more than half a century, nobody remembered Evelyn Cameron or how she documented early Montana Territory days. Her name didn't appear in history...