During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to ...

Also, the insatiable fur trade demand in Europe and the East Coast drew men West, especially for beaver pelts. Wiped out in Europe, beaver skins were popular as hats and commanded high prices.

Nothing in Elmer McCurdy’s life could have suggested he’d someday become a legend, one of those unforgettable bandits who helped carve out an enduring myth of the Old West. This guy was no ...

Most westerns are set in the ‘Old West’ (or 'Wild West'), a surprisingly short period from about 1865 to the end of the 19th Century. But the realities of living in that period were often very ...