The spirit of the Wild West lives on in towns where traditions, culture, and history blaze as brightly as ever. These historic towns, many founded during the 19th century gold rushes, cattle drives, ...

West Marin native Chris Hulls aims to preserve the old-timey watering hole as a vestige of the town’s rapidly disappearing ...

It was one of those crisp October evenings in the historical city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the kind that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. As we rolled down the quiet streets on an old ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In the West and in places like Montana, the allure and myth of the cowboy is so much more ...

McCoy, the son of the local police chief, grew up in Saginaw, Mich. He was taken to a Wild West show in his youth and was immediately smitten with Old West culture, to the point he bought a one-way ...

Maybe you’re loving the “Yellowstone” TV series or just Wild West-curious. Here are ways to get a feel for Washington’s rich Western cultural tapestry that weaves together life lived close to the land ...

Gene Autry, known as the Singing Cowboy, epitomized the western star, performing in movies, television and radio for more than three decades. © Sunset Boulevard ...

O n January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson led a group of students at Stanford University who chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Culture’s got to go.” In short order, Stanford and other colleges replaced ...