Beef barons needed cowboys less and bookkeepers more as the nineteenth century wore on.

“Little Sure Shot” was famous for her precision, athleticism, and trademark femininity.

1877 was a banner year for American dinosaurs: three major finds in the West turned the region into a "paleontologist's El Dorado."

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.

As the need for ranch workers has dwindled, the iconic status of cowboys has continued to grow.

The surprising story of the vigilantes who took it upon themselves to catch bank robbers in the 1920s and 30s.

The "Rest Cure" for women is notorious. But the "West Cure" for men, though little known today, is a fundamental part of American mythology.

Scholars Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith write that nuns were an important part of westward expansion—and in Colorado, nuns quickly learned how to use their gender to their advantage.

In The Long Winter, often praised as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s greatest novel, the villain may be not the snow, but oppressive gender roles.

For Jim Rock, tin cans were as important as shards of ancient pottery. Each can told a story of nineteenth and twentieth century life in America.