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 ...

Cocktail lounges, sports bars, dives, and tiki bars all have their place in any given boozy corner of America. But if you’re traveling through the West this spring and summer, there's nothing better ...

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 ...

The poker game was fixed — that’s the story anyway. An out-of-work miner got “caught gambling crooked,” so the dealer pulled a pistol and emptied six bullets into the man, so says the 1915 coroner’s ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The smell of smoke lingered Thursday above rubble in Mission Valley where a beloved country bar and dance hall used to stand. “I'm feeling very sad. I was just about in tears a ...