The Conestoga wagon was an icon of Western expansion, but it is often misunderstood. Conestoga wagons were important…
The Cheyenne’s Dog Soldiers, one of the most famous groups of Indigenous warriors in North America, fought until…
When it comes to Old West towns, most people think of empty dirt streets filled with tumbleweeds and…
The Wild West is a more nebulous term than you may think, so when the era ended is…
In 1877 Fort Griffin, Texas was at the height of its boom. The military post had been an…
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Few women and even fewer former slaves lived as authentic a life in the Old West as Mary…
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…