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 ...

Long before neon signs and mixology menus, Western saloons were the social engine of frontier towns. Miners, ranchers, and outlaws crowded shoulder-to-shoulder for cheap whiskey, dusty poker tables, ...

Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...

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 ...

A wrought-iron gate at a house on a quiet suburban street in Folsom stands as a portal to the California Gold Rush era. Walk through it, and you’re transported straight to a scene out of the Old West: ...