Born in Missouri in 1856, Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana goldfields…
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Get Western! Cowboy up in a dozen of our favorite Old West towns.
I remember seeing my Wyoming-raised father quietly touching his hand to the brim of his cowboy hat, or tipping it in a p…
Canyon Springs Ambush The Lame Johnny Gang vs. The Quick Shot Davis Messengers
September 26, 1878 The Monitor stage rolls out of Deadwood at seven in the morning. On the box is “Big Gene” Barnett han…
Calamity Jane: The Devil in Buckskins The summer of 1876 remains the legendary wild woman of the West’s defining season.
The year 1876 proved the turning point in Calamity Jane Canary’s career. It began with two quick trips to the Black Hill…
Deadwood’s Al Swearingen The rise and fall of the notorious purveyor of sin and his infamous saloon.
The night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day shall fold up their tents… and…silently steal aw…
Who Was The Real George Hearst? The mining magnate might be a modern-day Western film villain, but in reality he was an audacious, self-made entrepreneur of the American West.
As students of both broadcast entertainment and Western history should be aware, there are two George Hearsts, and the c…
Never Going Home Arch Wolfe was sentenced to two years in prison…which never ended.
Arch Wolfe was just 18 when he holed up with kinsman Ned Christie in the latter’s cabin in Indian Territory in 1892. Chr…
The Birth of Belle Fourche Seth Bullock and Sol Starr made it happen.
Seth Bullock and Sol Star are directly responsible for the town of Belle Fourche, SD. The pair owned the land in the 188…
The Star of Deadwood Sol Star made an important mark in the Old West town.
Although Seth Bullock gets a lot of notoriety when it comes to Deadwood, his partner Sol Star actually was more prominen…
Black Hills and Gold Dust The Sioux lost their sacred land due to the 1874 discovery.
The Sioux considered the Black Hills to be sacred, the center of the earth and a place to speak to the Great Spirit. The…