After the Civil War, freed slaves were able to get jobs as cowboys in the Wild West. Valley 101 shares the story of Black ...

Cowboy Carter Chronicle explores a groundbreaking course at the University of Houston that unravels the rich tapestry of Black contributions to the American West ...

Frontier cowboys, coal miners, buffalo hunters, prostitutes, saloon keepers and lawmen did dangerous, dirty work in the frontier West. Dynamite, ...

The rugged spirit of the American West comes alive in old photos of cowboys and cowgirls who called the open range home. Long before Hollywood glamorized ranching and turned cowboys into legends, ...

It's a tale that sounds like something out of an old Western: A big-moneyed city dweller descends on a small Texas town with nefarious plans to turn the community into a new development, and the town ...