Historians write of one fanciful event that took place about 1895 when the Bender Gang, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and ...

If the Americans had not crossed the Delaware and if Trenton had not fallen to those rebels, the United States may not have come into existence. The ...

Out of Site focuses on the scientific tools used to map the West’s resource-rich landscape, and how those technologies have become forces of destruction.

Schutmaat has long been fascinated by the West; as he toured with punk bands in his teens and early 20s, he felt himself drawn to the region and its open space. His new book, Sons of the Living, ...

The cowboy hat is the foremost symbol of the American West. But the hat also tells a much more complex story about the USA, ...

Here’s just a short list of the most memorable fictional cowboys and outlaws of the 20th century. Lonesome Dove Old friends ...

In the decades since, fires have regularly taken him across the West, and through forests of Canada, too. But with more than 200 fires this fall throughout his home state of Connecticut ...

Donahue, Timothy 2020. Styles of Sovereignty: Parataxis, Settler–Indigenous Difference, and the Transnationalisms of the Great Basin. American Literary History, Vol ...

This year, voters in New Mexico and Colorado elected women as the majority in state legislatures. They joined Nevada, which also has women in charge of the state legislative body.

In this exhibit, you can explore the history of horses in the American West. Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30–40 million years ago and were small, ...

Eventually, the photographer Bryan Schutmaat told me, the strip malls fade into the rearview mirror, the landscape opens, and the American West begins. Schutmaat has long been fascinated by the ...