The biggest difference between the western saddle and eastern is the horn. The saddle horn was essential for roping open range cattle during roundup...
Spotted Tail was a Brule chief in Wyoming Territory. He was involved in the Grattan Massacre, in which 29 soldiers were killed. Spotted Tail then...
Before days of weather forecasting, there are accounts of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains and Indian villages in the Old West same as...
Despite the popularity of the breech-loading Sharps rifles, there was a great need for a repeating rifle. During the Civil War, teenager,...
Prairie Fever was also known as “Prairie Madness.” It affected settlers emigrating to the Great Plains following the Homestead Act of 1862. It...
American Indian burials were as diverse as the Native Americans culture and languages. Keep in mind these customs could vary within a tribe. Some...
Pete Anderson was a farmer on the Potawatomie Reservation in what is now Oklahoma. On Christmas Day 1890, two local lawmen deputized Anderson as...
Neil Howey made his mark in Montana during the gold rush days of the 1860s. He started off seeking the precious metal—but he found a calling in law...
Rancher Pink Higgins walked into the Lampasas, Texas’ Gem Saloon on January 22, 1877. He approached Merritt Horrell, reportedly said something about...
The steam engine was invented in England in 1825 and a year later it arrived in America. By the 1850s trains were chuffing along at 25 mph. Since...
Johnson Canyon, located between Williams and Ash Fork, Arizona on the Santa Fe Railroad (Nee) Atlantic and Pacific RR turned out to be the most...
In Old West movies they show a bounty hunter or family transporting a dead body to some distant location for burial. Anybody who’s been around one...