Long before neon signs and mixology menus, Western saloons were the social engine of frontier towns. Miners, ranchers, and outlaws crowded shoulder-to-shoulder for cheap whiskey, dusty poker tables, ...

It was the American Frontier, known also as the “Old West,” or the “Wild West” – a place that encompassed the folklore, geography and culture associated with the wave of American expansion in mainland ...

Tales of the lawless West have always been a hit with tourists. Plenty of the "Old West" towns across the U.S. are more than happy to embrace their history and help visitors travel back in time to the ...

Most images of an Old West saloon are barroom brawls and gunfire, with scantily clad “soiled doves” hanging around. Not according to archeologist and historian Homer Thiel, who has extensively ...

Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Eagle Communications, Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous ...

A curious silence filled the air on my first trip to Bandera - mainly because my phone struggled to connect to Wi-Fi as I drove through the old-Western town. But maybe that was part of the city's ...

A wrought-iron gate at a house on a quiet suburban street in Folsom stands as a portal to the California Gold Rush era. Walk through it, and you’re transported straight to a scene out of the Old West: ...

The Portland beer scene continues to grow, this time with the addition of brewery in West Bayside. Argenta Brewing, a tasting-room-style brewery specializing in lagers, will be taking over space at 82 ...

Tascosa, Texas, in those turbulent times of the 1880s, epitomized lawlessness and chaos. It was a place where legends were ...

A nonprofit founded by a Bay Area tech mogul has purchased the building that houses a Marin County dive bar with a storied past. The building at 11201 Highway 1 in Point Reyes Station had been on the ...