The most famous gunfight of the Wild West era took place on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Over the past 135...
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Geronimo Prize Breaks Record
A Model 1886 Winchester rifle presented to the man who captured Apache leader Geronimo 130 years ago this August is now the most expensive single...
The Cowboy Artist Star
In the 1960s, Joe Beeler rode his horse daily on a six-mile trip to his mailbox from his home on Oklahoma’s Quapaw Reservation. He hunted. And he...
Indian with Bow Hits Mark
Shirley Lesure, a retired nurse living in New River, Arizona, had just found out a painting she thought might be worth $100,000 would not even...
One-Armed Bandits
California was bursting at the seams with fortune seekers in 1885, when 23-year-old Charles Fey landed in San Francisco. Gaming was made illegal in...
A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln said precisely the wrong words in 1858, but standing by his famous speech landed him in precisely the right place two years later....
Trail of Horses
When Edward Borein died in 1945, he left on his easel an unfinished oil depicting cattle at a watering hole, with a group of mounted cowboys yet to...
Swashbuckler to Scam Artist
A man first deemed to be a swashbuckler quickly spiraled into a scam artist. That man, Dr. Charles A. Pryor, stands next to rebel leader Pancho...
Burlesque Baseball
The silver mining camp of Silver City, New Mexico, took all of three years after its founding to form its first baseball team. The Silver City...
Best of the West 2016: Art & Collectibles
"Now began the real work….Rawhide ‘riatas’ were taken down, and a man rode into the bunch swinging the loop round his head like clockwork. All at...
The 100 Best Historical Photos of the American Cowboy
Rise of the Cowboy Before the Mexican-American War concluded in 1848, American traders who traveled to the Western frontier encountered Spanish...
Hugh Glass’s Deadly Journey
In the winter of 1833, ten years after Hugh Glass was attacked by a grizzly and left for dead, the mountain man took a message to Fort Union with Ed...