When the veterans came home from the battlefields and their postings far from home 150 years ago, the toll of the war was felt from the hamlets of...

On May, 15, 2015, fifty years after the last guest stayed at the Historic Sheridan Inn of Sheridan, Wyoming, the famous hotel will reopen for guests...

A century before the extreme drought issues in the West, Arizona was experiencing one of its wettest springs in 1915. Just a month past four years...

While many collectors of baseball cards have heard of the holy grail of cards, the T206 Hones Wagner card, issued by American Tobacco Company...

Independent filmmaker Cameron Trejo and historian Heidi Osselaer recently debuted the documentary, Power’s War, at a series of screenings ,including...

At the annual Historical Society of New Mexico Conference in Albuquerque on May 9, Max Evans will receive the 2015 Edgar Lee Hewett Award in honor...

General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Northern Army of Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse on April 12. Three days later President Abraham Lincoln was...

Actor James Coburn, best known for his Western films The Magnificent Seven and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was posthumously inducted into the...

On April 27, 1865, the worst maritime disaster in United States history occurred when three of four boilers on the steamship Sultana exploded and...

Author Michael Zimmer received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s 2015 Outstanding Western Novel Award for The Poacher’s Daughter,...

There is a lot of controversy rumbling through the airwaves and social media about Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News series Legends & Lies: Into the...

Since Owen Wister’s The Virginian was published in 1902, Western novelists have returned to the era of the transitional West, which, according to...