History Death on the Plains By Robin Gilliam Five small white headstones enclosed by an iron fence rest in the…RanchingHeritageNovember 4, 2022
HistoryPeople From the Collection: The Martin B. Lloyd Spencer Shotgun Martin B. Lloyd came to Texas shortly after the Civil War and quickly established himself…RanchingHeritageOctober 21, 2022
HeritageHistory The History of the Vaquero By Phil Livingston Republished with permission from American Cowboy magazine 1519–1700s After the Spanish arrived…RanchingHeritageOctober 13, 2022
HistoryPeople How Stetsons Became the Cowboy Hat Icon of the American West From humble beginnings, a lone Easterner created something that has become iconic with the frontier…RanchingHeritageOctober 7, 2022
HistoryPeople Cynthia Ann Parker | When Real Life and Screen Life Don’t Match By Bob Welch and Sue Hancock Jones Cynthia Ann Parker’s kidnapping in 1836 was the…RanchingHeritageSeptember 10, 2022
History Last Cowtown on the Chisholm Trail A Kansas historical marker describes “the Caldwell of the past” as home to gunslingers, cowboys,…RanchingHeritageSeptember 3, 2022
HeritageHistoryPeopleRanch Highlight Spanish Ranch: Building on Tradition For 150 years, the Spanish Ranch has been testing the mettle of its cowboys.RanchingHeritageAugust 26, 2022
HeritageHistoryPeople How To Build a Ranching Empire: The S.M. Swenson Story Though born a Swede in 1816, S.M. Swenson embodied the American dream and ultimately owned…RanchingHeritageAugust 19, 2022
HeritageHistory In Praise of the Unappreciated Mule Horses are quick to grab history’s glamour and glory, leaving little attention for their homelier,…RanchingHeritageAugust 12, 2022
HeritageHistory When the Vast Texas XIT Expanded to Montana Across the frontier of the cattleman’s Old West, the largest ranch under one fence was…RanchingHeritageAugust 5, 2022