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The West was made for road trips. The desolate roads, mountains, cacti and wildlife are practically begging you to hop in your car and explore. There’s plenty of history to draw you in, too. If you’re a fan of gunslingers, cowboys and covered wagons...

Welcome back to the A to Z Bloggers Challenge and thank you for reading! Tonight we will discuss Quanah Parker (1852-1911), believed to be one of the greatest Comanche chiefs and the last to surrender, Quanah was also the oldest son of Cynthia Ann Parker...

If the NYTimes were ever inclined to pay homage to a piece of psynematic™ propaganda it might look something like this: Book about the movie ‘The Searchers,’ by Glenn Frankel There are a few Hollywood movies so thematically rich and so historically...

During the latter years of his life, Quanah Parker was the best known of all the Comanche, and his is still a name to conjure with in Texas more than a century after his death. He was born around 1852, the son of war chief Peta Nocona and a white woman...

Did you know you can buy a ranch that’s bigger than the entire city of Washington DC? The Waggoner Ranch – the largest ranch in the country – is in Texas (of course) and is currently on the market for three-quarters of a billion dollars. In square miles...