When the Golden Spike connected Central Pacific and Union Pacific rails at Promontory Summit, Utah, in May 1869,…
Fans of the television show Gunsmoke may have fond memories of the Long Branch, Dodge City, Kansass lively…
The 1960s and ’70s ushered in a golden era of Old West magazine publishing, and today these aged-but-entertaining…
The classic 1993 Western Tombstone is full of memorable quotes from Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the infamous…
For thousands of years, the Native American people of North America relied on stone arrowheads and project points…
William “Curly Bill” Brocius was only on Arizona’s Old West scene for a little more than three years,…
These seven ghost towns in California show glimpses of just how the ’49ers lived in their pursuit of…
In an essay published in the July-August 1845 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, John…
From a distasteful painting that got people killed, to the unlikely location of a Civil War battle, these…
No single gun won the West, but these 10 firearms certainly carved a niche in its history. The…
Native Americans may have invented scalping, but European contact accelerated it.
Johnny Ringo was a charismatic, B-list thug with an A-list reputation in American West history. Best known as…