Wildfire smoke was helping raise ozone to hazardous levels. No alerts have been issued, but the air quality may approach ...

We tracked down a lost U.S. military fort from the Indian Wars era using an old map—and what we found is pure Wild West history. Located in the West Texas desert near El Paso, Fort Stockton was once ...

U.S. government undertook its most controversial wildlife program yet: restoring wolves to Idaho and Yellowstone.

Chicago newspapers picked up stories from Utah papers. The Utah paper ran the big headline “The New Gold Mines” and said the finds had “set the people wild.” Other papers kept writing about it, which ...

How Texas Made the West Wild," Bryan Burrough traces the paths of men who settled scores with pistols and called the Lone ...

The other day I was poking around in the back issues of The Auk, the oldest and most prestigious ornithological journal in ...

There’s something magical about driving up to Leadville, Colorado. The road winds through mountain passes, each turn revealing another postcard-worthy vista, until suddenly you’re in the highest ...

The Lost Empire is an underrated masterpiece that has a hidden link to one of the most influential sci-fi shows of all time.

As much as the “Gunfighter Era” of the Old West was characterized by shoot-outs in the streets, so too was it known for tall ...