Wichita proudly wears its Wild West roots and Gunsmoke connection. In Gunsmoke’s Season Nine episode “Dirt,” Festus and Quint ...

A pending deal to end the government shutdown is too late for about 30 bison on the Fort Peck reservation in northern Montana ...

Since time immemorial, Indigenous people have executed textile, beadwork and craftsmanship into powerful cultural expressions ...

Sitting Bull needed a place to sleep. Charles Wilkins gave him the use of a jailhouse bunk. Sitting Bull gave him drawings that later led to sleuthing to find the artist.

Route 66 turns 100 years old in 2026 presenting the country an opportunity to authentically rewrite the narrative of the Mother Road, so-named by John Steinbeck in his 1939 novel, “The Grapes of Wrath ...

Wyoming is famous for its historic frontier forts, and will soon have another one more than 150 years since the last was built. Mountain men broke ...

The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous ...

As French police race to track where the Louvre’s stolen crown jewels have gone, a growing chorus wants a brighter light on ...

This small Nebraska town tucked away near the corners of three states is a hidden gem where you can see buffalo and the Rocky ...

Best known for one of the world’s most incredible wildlife spectacles — the Great Migration across the Serengeti — this East ...

Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...