I was reading 'Good Little Bad Man', the story of Colorado Charley Utter. It was noted that Charley had the habit, thought odd at the time, of...

I was reading 'Good Little Bad Man', the story of Colorado Charley Utter. It was noted that Charley had the habit, thought odd at the time, of...
Cigarettes and cigars have been around for a long time. Prior to the Civil War cigars ranked next to chewing tobacco in popularity. They were...
Tom Russell, Singer-Songwriter, Author, Artist.
The original cowboys as we know them today, were the Mexican vaqueros. From Texas to California these superbly skilled horsemen could ride and rope...
George McJunkin was a black cowboy who began riding the ranges at the end of the Civil War—when he was 14-years old. He was self-taught in reading...
A True West recently asked, “My wife and I watch western movies all of the time. We have noticed that there is a lot of whiskey drinking in all of...
Harry Saxon was the nephew of Cochise County Cowboy Wes Fuller—but he took an entirely different path in life. In 1903, at the age of 21, Saxon was...
Thirty-five years after Larry McMurtry’s visionary novel was published, it still inspires our love of Old West History.
They used to say if you could hold a job cowboying in the Tonto Basin you could cowboy anywhere in the West. In 1874, the Christian Christopher...
Cattle were first introduced to the land that would become the Empire Ranch back in 1699 when the legendary Jesuit padre Father Eusebio Kino brought...
The biggest difference between the western saddle and eastern is the horn. The saddle horn was essential for roping open range cattle during roundup...
Will C. Barnes was born in San Francisco on June 21st, 1858. After moving across country and living in numerous states, he settled in Washington,...