WHEN WHISKEY RULED THE WEST

FROM LEWIS AND CLARK UNTIL PROHIBITION, THE GOLDEN ELIXIR WAS AS GOOD AS GOLD.

We Won't Back Down

Western women led the way for woman suffrage 50 years before 19th Amendment became the law of the land.

Lubbock, Texas

A little bit country, a little bit rock and a whole lot of Texas is ready to be discovered in the West Texas town.

Locked and Loaded!

Pearl Hart and a posse of sharpshooting Western women shaped the West from the barroom to the courthouse.

Cimarron's Old Model 1894 Rifle

Known as America’s Deer Rifle, this 126-year-old lever-action is back again in its original 1890s configuration.

A Fistful of Ladies

Women may love Westerns, but only a handful have directed one.

TV's ‘The Lone Ranger' at 70

Of all the people the Masked Man and Tonto saved, the most crucial was Clayton Moore.

The Great Race of Mercy

TRACKING DIPHTHERIA FROM NOME, ALASKA, TO TODAY.

ONE MAN KNEW

According to an excellent book, The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, the deadliest plague in history—1918-1919—started in Haskell County, Kansas, and one man, Dr. Loring Miner, knew firsthand about it, because many of his patients were dying, but no one would listen.

Keeping the Western Alive

Western publishers and independent authors chronicle the West, one story at a time.

On the Bison Trail

The heritage traveler can discover the history and natural wonder of the great buffalo herds from Texas to Montana.

“Our Father, Who Art....”

In Dakota Territory, those were building words.

Initiation to Robbery

Butch Cassidy’s first bank job set the standard for future holdups.

HERO OR GOAT?

The press declared curly a hero until gall called him out at the battle of little bighorn's 10th reunion

Gunpowder to Oysters

While today it the Odd fellows Halls in paradise valley, Nevada, in 1898, Fred M.Buckingham (behind the counter) sold everything from firefarms to coffee (right, foregrand) in his humboldt valley store

Deadwood, South Dakota

The Black Hills boomtown celebrates the Old West every day of the year.

“... Not a Single Notch!”

Captain Neal was the calmest Ranger of ’em all. Outlaws never doubted that he’d kill if necessary—he just never let it get necessary.

The Real Texas Rangers Armed AND Dangerous

Nearly two centuries ago, Texas founding father Stephen F. Austin unofficially created the Texas Rangers to protect his fledgling colonists farming and ranching near the colony’s capital of Velasco, along the Brazos River near the Gulf Coast.

TOO BRAVE TO DIE

THE HEROIC TALE OF THE DAWSON BRIGADE AND HENRY GONZALVO WOODS’S REMARKABLE SURVIVAL AT THE SEPTEMBER 1842 DAWSON MASSACRE

Lonesome Dove

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER LARRY MCMURTRY’S VISIONARY NOVEL WAS PUBLISHED, IT STILL INSPIRES OUR LOVE OF OLD WEST HISTORY.

La Frontiera

FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF TEXAS TO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, THE TEXAS RANGERS WERE THE MOST RESPECTED—AND FEARED— LAW ENFORCERS IN LONE STAR STATE HISTORY.

North to the Gold Country

Follow the 1898 Klondike and Alaska miners’ overland route from Sacramento to Seattle.

Eat! Drink! Sleep!

Western historic hotels and saloons offer guests a chance to experience the Old West with all the conveniences of the modern day.

Cowboy Cuisine

In the cow towns at the end of the trail, cowboys left the beans and biscuits in camp and dined like city slickers.

I Will Fight No More Forever

CHIEF JOSEPH’S LEADERSHIP OF THE NEZ PERCES FROM YELLOWSTONE TO BEAR PAW REMAINS A DEFINING MOMENT IN AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY.

Black Kettle: THE PEOPLE'S PEACE MAKER

THE VALIANT SOUTHERN CHEYENNE CHIEF NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING THAT PEACE AND FREEDOM WERE POSSIBLE FOR HIS TRIBE.

Eyewitness to History

Remarkable photographs by German immigrant-turnedsoldier Christian Barthelmess offer a window into a soldier’s life in the West.

Way Out Wickenburg Way

Discover the Old West history and heritage of one of Arizona’s oldest towns.

The Bitter Truth

Whiskey bitters became an elixir for women on the frontier.

BROTHERS IN BLOOD JESSE JAMES AND BILLY THE KID

On April 3, 1882, Jesse Woodson James’s life bled out in his family home in St. Joseph, Missouri, an assassin’s .44 caliber bullet exploding the back of the 34-year-old bandit’s skull.