A rich historic trail will be discovered following Buffalo Bill’s path to celebrity. You can find William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody practically...
Magnet for Miners
A tour of Western Montana is rich in mining heritage, ghost towns and living history centers. Gold seekers started flooding into western Montana in...
The Grand Old Park
Yellowstone, America’s first National Park, celebrates its 150th anniversary. Ferdinand V. Hayden, head of the U.S. Geological and Geographic...
The Earps’ Flight After the Fight
The lawmen’s route from Arizona to New Mexico and Colorado is a grand adventure. The Gunfight That Wasn’t at the O.K. Corral was over, Billy Clanton...
Trailing Them North
Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame...
Rocky Mountain Bonanzas
Explore mining history from Cripple Creek to Grand Encampment. It happened all across the West: a spark from a stove or fireplace set one wooden...
Elmer Kelton Country
A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories. The frontier town of Mobeetie was taking on some of...
Flight for Freedom
Follow the Northern Cheyennes’ desperate and deadly dash for home from Oklahoma to Montana. The hot August 1878 weather bore down at Darlington...
Arizona’s Yavapai-Apache War
A tour of the conflict’s historic sites is a poignant reminder of how unmerciful war was meted out against the state’s Native people. ...
Spark on the Prairie
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It...
True Grit
Eighteen-year-old Susan Magoffin traveled West with her lady’s maid on the Santa Fe Trail. Susan Shelby Magoffin was an unlikely traveler when she...
History, Haunts and Hotels
Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State's colorful Carbon County Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in...