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From the Oregon Trail to Toy Story, Western and cowboy music has helped shape the collective consciousness...

At the Chincoteague Pony Drive, saltwater cowboys round up wild island ponies, and drive them across...

Buffalo Soldiers made the frontier a safer place.

Though he was born a slave, George Monroe became one of the West’s most famous stagecoach drivers.

After a life on the lam, Western outlaw Emmett Dalton of the Dalton gang took on Hollywood.

“Sometimes history is so difficult to comprehend that we require fiction to make it understandable.”...

The adulation of the Old West says more about American character than it does about American history...

Country music has been a part of television since the beginning of the medium in the late 1940s. Shows...

Throughout history, mules—strong, hardy, and stubborn—have been considered the pickup truck of the equine...

From covered wagon to cockpit, Ezra Meeker lived, preserved, and promoted the legacy of the Oregon Trail....

During the Gold Rush, towns boomed around mines in the West. However, once those mines were depleted,...

Calamity Jane earned her reputation as a woman who did as she pleased. In the April/May issue of American...