Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarías estimates that half of Old West cowboys after the Civil War were Black or Hispanic. Yet their presence has been largely unaccounted for in classic ...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to ...

Most westerns are set in the ‘Old West’ (or 'Wild West ... Many others were Mexican or from South American countries. Being a cowboy was a difficult, dangerous, and badly-paid job, one ...