Composer Chuck Pinnell makes his literary debut with The Irish Singer, inspired by his West Texas childhood and family trips to southern New...

White workers massacred Chinese at a Wyoming mining camp. American labor troubles turned inward at Rock Springs, Wyoming on September 2, 1885. The...

The curious cause of a Colorado mine disaster. Colorado mining had its second disaster in April 1917. Less than two miles from where the Ludlow...

A Colorado incident resulted in big changes in the mining industry. The Ludlow Massacre was one of the turning points in the various mining wars....

I never bought into the extra-long barrel O'Brian carried on TV. I really don't buy into the 10-inch barrel. That was an eyewitnesses account. We...

I just watched High Noon again the day other for…I’ve forgotten how many times. It's still a classic. Gary Cooper has always been one of my...

True West readers often ask what make and model of handguns Wyatt Earp owned and used during the gunfight near the OK Corral. Second, exactly the...

The term “seeing the elephant” was a euphemism for traveling to the West in the pioneer period. Where did that come from? The story is told of a...