The American West captured the public imagination at the close of the 1800s. In that industrial age, it was not really very wild any more, but nostalgia and fantasy for its past burned bright. Visual ...

Cowboy and Old West historian Michael Grauer rates 13 Wild West scenes in movies and television for realism. Michael Grauer debunks common tropes in Western films, such as the realism of quick-draw ...

Making a pilgrimage to one of the most iconic and remote land art installations of our time, The Lightning Field (1977) by American sculptor Walter De Maria, in the high desert of western New Mexico, ...

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 ...

Larry McMurtry, the famed Texas novelist, screenwriter and bookseller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove," at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1. The Wild West provides the backdrop for ...