History

Kit Carson, Quanah Parker and The Battles of Adobe Walls

In a dusty Panhandle camp near Canyon, Texas, Plains Indians and white combatants clashed in two historically crucial battles,...

Hugh Glass: The Epic True Tale

Take a mountain man hundreds of miles from civilization, add a bear, subtract his gun, and what do you...

Vegas Then and Now

How Las Vegas went from frontier town to America's playground.

Policing the Rails

Dispatching train robbers and freeloading hobos with equal brutality, railroad "bulls" didn't take any.

Pistol Pete

Frank Eaton, aka Pistol Pete, shot his way into the legends of Oklahoma and the lore of the West.

Buffalo Bill Does Scotland

When William "Buffalo Bill" Cody took his Wild West show overseas, he left a little-known but lasting impression on...

My Life as an Indian

It is easy to imagine the excitement of 17-year-old James Willard Schultz as the steamboat pulled away from the...

Cabeza de Vaca

Naked and barefoot, the intrepid Spanish explorer crossed the continent, performed miracles, and managed to compile one of the...