Most people don’t look at a road atlas these days when they need to go somewhere.  However, if you visit Baker, Montana, you might appreciate…

Most steers don’t live to the age of 15 years old.  When one does, well, there’s probably an interesting story behind him.  That’s the case…

In the 1920s and 30s, one farmer in southeastern Montana was raising some of the largest steers the country had ever seen.  In fact, one…

Within the boundaries of one of northwest Louisiana’s larger cities, you’ll find an old fort.  It was this outpost around which today’s city grew and…

In northwestern Louisiana you’ll find lands once the home to the Caddo Nation.  When the first European explorers came here, they soon developed a trading…

John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy.  And when you take into account how difficult it was…

In a movie “western” you might see two gunslingers fire their pistols at each other in the town square.  That’s exactly what happened here.  It…

When the Civil War ended, there were still many unsettled scores of course.  Towns along the border with North and South were especially prone to…

It’s common that towns, school and other sites are named in honor of U.S. Presidents.  So it’s natural that most people believe this town was…

Today technology can help us predict and spot several storms that may be headed our way.  Of course, there was a time when that was…