What History Has Taught MeJohn McEuen, Folk musician
Born in Oakland, California, John McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which is currently on a 50t…
Winfield Scott: The Fighting Parson
Most people around “The West’s Most Western Town” of Scottsdale, Arizona think of their founder, Winfield Scott as a Go…
Why Did Stage Drivers Sit on the Right Side?
Why did stage drivers sit on the right side? -Kevin Baldwin of Frankenmuth, Michigan Buggy drivers sat on the right because most were right handed an…
Building Your Western LibraryKeith McCafferty, Author
Keith McCafferty is the survival and outdoors skills editor of Field & Stream, and the author of The Royal Wulff Mur…
Adah Issacs Menken: The Great Menken
Not all the women who migrated to California during the Gold Rush were prostitutes and gamblers. The women who played the frontier theaters—sin…
Texas Ranger Ben “Dad” Pennington
Ben “Dad” Pennington was 56 when he became a Texas Ranger in 1917. A bit old, perhaps, but Pennington had 20 years of l…
Navajo Women Helped the War Effort, Too
While young Navajo men were away, secretly helping win the war as Code Talkers with their unbreakable code, hundreds of …
TRUE WEST MOMENT: Geronimo on the Beach
According to Apache lore, one day Geronimo and a few warriors took off running from their hideout in the Sierra Madre Mo…
Fantastic Firearms in Cody2017 marks the centennial of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and its Cody Firearms Museum.
The Walk Down
Buckskin Frank LeslieFilling the gaps in the long and illustrious life of a Tombstone legend.
“I, Nashville Franklyn Leslie, was born near San Antonio, Texas on the 18th day of March 1842 and am now a resident of Tombstone, Arizona and have bee…
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