Ned Buntline, the famous pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson, was "the patriarch of blood-and-thunder romancers," according to Henry Nash Smith in Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950). He has often been called the originator of...

An 1878 billboard promoting a "Buffalo Bill" Cody stage show has been restored, five years after it was discovered beneath the crumbling brick facade of a former hotel.The 24-by-10-foot paper billboard had been pasted to an unfinished exterior wall of the hotel during construction 129...