The California Gold Rush put westward expansion on steroids. Californians were demanding better mail service, which up to then had been almost...

Throughout 2018 Oregon will be commemorating an epic event the foretold the history of the west. 175 years ago, the first wagons struck out on the...

  Nat Kinney led the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group that patrolled the Missouri Ozarks in the mid to late 1880s.  A farmer, merchant and...

Someone asked me the other day what it was like watching those B-Western movies in those little, cracker box theaters during the 1940s. Everyone who...

Experience the thundering hooves, pistol shots, jumping and slashing sabers of the old horse soldiers at the Regional Cavalry Competition at Fort...

Fires were always a menace to frontier towns. The boomtowns of Prescott, Bisbee, Jerome, and Tombstone all burned to the ground more than once...

From 1957 to 1963 Paladin, a hired gun with morals and a conscience, was one of the most popular shows on television trailing only Gunsmoke and...

Captain Emmet Crawford was one of the tragic casualties of the Apache Wars.  In late 1885, he led a small force into Mexico, chasing Geronimo....

Army Lt. Charles Gatewood is best known for his role in convincing Geronimo to surrender to U.S. authorities in 1886.  But he was also connected to...

King Woolsey, was one of Arizona’s best-known pioneers during the 1860s. He prospected for gold in Arizona before the Walker Party arrived in 1863....

The Long drives from South Texas to Kansas from the 1860s to the 1880s were roughly six hundred miles and took about six weeks. I should have taken...

It was 1903, and Apache leader Geronimo staggered into a Dutch Reform Church at Ft. Sill, OK, where he was being held as a prisoner of war.  He was...