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Pirate treasure in the desert?

Fay E. Ward wrote a treasure trove of cowboy skills and history.

In the years following the Civil War, pioneers, freed slaves, and Longhorns flooded Texas. Entrepreneurial...

Photographer Erwin Smith captured the daily lives of Texas Cowboys.

A tiny, mountain mining town is home to the oldest saloon in the Southwest.

Joe Mora explored and chronicled the West.

In the days of the Old West, Yuma was a hub of development. Even when Spanish explorers came through...

Today, Langtry, Texas, a cliffside town on the Rio Grande, is the residence for merely 12 people and...

Herman Lehmann spent nearly nine years living as an Indian before returning to his family.

The first woman to ride up the Chisholm Trail with her own brand.

Was this catastrophic event the death of the Old West?

The life of Evelyn Mantle was much like other frontier women’s—hard and lonely, yet rewarding—except...