
7 Facts You May Not Know About the Conestoga Wagon
The Conestoga wagon was an icon of Western expansion, but it is often misunderstood. Conestoga wagons were important…
The Conestoga wagon was an icon of Western expansion, but it is often misunderstood. Conestoga wagons were important…
The Wild West is a more nebulous term than you may think, so when the era ended is…
When the Golden Spike connected Central Pacific and Union Pacific rails at Promontory Summit, Utah, in May 1869,…
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…
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 ten firearms certainly carved a niche in its history. The…
Native Americans may have invented scalping, but European contact accelerated it.
When the first Europeans arrived on the eastern shores of North America, they could scarcely comprehend the vast…
Wells Fargo’s express service helped to define and develop the Old West through stagecoaches and shotguns. The discovery…