Across the West, cemeteries, monuments and memorials provide a poignant reminder of the West’s historic past. Across the United States...
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Features & Gunfights
The Legendary Jack Dalton
Was he Alaska's greatest backwoodsman and trailblazer? A Haines woman who’d known John “Jack” Dalton as a frequent guest at her...
The Accidental Explorer
From the Alaskan Arctic to the Bearpaw Battlefield in Montana, Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a man of action and adventure. In...
Quick as Lightning and Used to Killing Men
Billy “the Kid” Claiborne vs Buckskin Frank Leslie Tombstone Lives Up to its Claim: A Man for Breakfast Every Morning November 14,...
Surviving Winter
Artist David Wright’s decades of field research in all seasons reveal the beauty of the coldest season and the tenacity of the mountain men who made...
Uncle Chick, Me and the Christmas Tree
Looking back at Charles Orme’s ranch school, where students are still taught to this day. The aging Chevrolet Carryall van turned off the Old Black...
Hellraisers & Trailblazers
The Real Women of the Wild West All Artwork by Bob Boze Bell The Queen of the Colorado Red Light District Jennie Rogers was a tall drink of water,...
The Seminole Burnings
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman's Courageous Work was the Greatest of His Legendary Career. The largest and most sensational criminal trial that...
Tumbling Dice, Blind Pigs and Brothels
The Earps’ last stand in Los Angeles was more bust than bonanza. In 1866 the first home for disabled war veterans was opened in Togus, Maine, and...
Gunslinger Guns for Today’s “Shootists”
Nowadays, Old West fans can enjoy solid, shooting replicas of the six-guns and long-arms packed by the legendary gunmen of yesteryear. While many of...
Cowboy Hats and Western Boots
The two most recognizable fashion icons of the American West are selling out worldwide. Born out of necessity in the post-Civil War West, the...
Momaday’s Billy the Kid Pistola
The famed Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares his obsession for Billy the Kid in his tale of a gun he believes the outlaw owned. This is the story...