History

Sidney Kidman, The Australian Cattle King

The biggest cattle operation on the planet, the Kidman Ranch might never have existed had a 13-year-old Sidney Kidman...

Recollections of a Cowpuncher

He rode with Charles Russell and inspired "Lonesome Dove." But E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott's life dream was to write...

The Last Free Apaches

While Hollywood was making its first westerns, the Apaches who never surrendered continued to live free south of the...

Forgotten Texas Ranger Landmark Rescued

Once featured on Texas' Most Endangered Places list by Preservation Texas and destined for demolition, the Magnolia Hotel has...

Spirit of the Wind

After living in hospitals for most of his teen years, George Attla was an outsider in his home village...

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,...

The Epic True Tale of Hugh Glass

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.