Meghan Saar
Stories by Meghan Saar
Deadwood, South Dakota
If we had played word association five years ago and said "Deadwood," most people would have responded "Wild Bill Hickok."
A Gun Exchanged for Billy the Kid's Mare
"I want no man who hesitates," Frank Stewart told his Panhandle stockmen when they had realized that they weren't just rounding up some stolen steer near Fort Sumner - they were going after Billy the Kid and his gang.
Mellonsfolly's Wild West
Is it any wonder that New Zealand attracted celebrated Western author and world record-holding fisherman Zane Grey?
St. Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph touts itself as the "home where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended."
Tom Horn Hits the Auction Block
A man who weaved the very rope he was hanged with, for a crime some believe he talked himself into, was likely to go down in history.
Wickenburg, Arizona
An 1862 gold rush near Yuma, Arizona, spurred the interest of gold prospectors including an Austrian named Henry Wickenburg.
Range Story Tops Rare Book Sale
Forget the "blood and thunder" pulps, most readers appreciate a true-to-life story.
Cowboys & Indians
The Cherokee Kid is the most famous cowboy Indian known today.
Austin, Texas
Waterloo, Texas? Yes, that's what Austin went by back in 1837 before Mirabeau B. Lamar renamed the city two years later in honor of the "Father of Texas," Stephen F. Austin.