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‘Here’s Your Hat,’ Was All This Ugly Outlaw Needed to Hear

by David Lauterborn11/5/202211/11/2022

When indie Western actor-cum-hatmaker Travis Lee Eller wanted an authentic look, he literally took matters into his own hands.

This Man Was the Real Founder of San Francisco. Why Doesn’t Anyone Know His Name Today?

by Ramon Vasconcellos11/3/202211/3/2022

Did This 19th-Century Man Go Too Far to Protect … a Dam?

by Greg Lalire11/1/202211/1/2022

Where Is the Body of Billy the Kid’s Most Famous Victim?

by Brandon Dickson10/27/202210/27/2022

The 10 Most Interesting Wild West Characters … Some May Surprise You

by Melody Groves10/27/202210/27/2022

Was Geronimo Really a Good Leader?

by Candy Moulton10/19/202210/19/2022

Ethan and father John Wayne in a still from the 1971 Western Big Jake

John Wayne’s Son Ethan Remembers the Western Screen Icon

by David Lauterborn9/30/202210/3/2022

Main gallery of the John Wayne An American Experience Museum in Fort Worth Texas

John Wayne Is Big As Life in This Fort Worth Museum

by Linda Wommack9/30/20229/30/2022

The "Fort Worth Five," Butch Cassidy and members of his Wild Bunch gang, pose in 1900 for Fort Worth photographer John Swartz.

Was the Wild Bunch’s Kid Curry Really a Psychopath?

by Gregory Lalire9/29/20229/29/2022

The "Fort Worth Five," Butch Cassidy and members of his Wild Bunch gang, pose in 1900 for Fort Worth photographer John Swartz.

Who Shot The Iconic ‘Fort Worth Five’ Photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

by Richard Selcer and Donna Donnell9/21/20229/21/2022