In 1925, Kathryn Downing-Smith, the wife of one of Patrick Gass’s grandsons, wrote a letter to her niece Pearl about Gass. She offered keen insight...
Battle-Tested in the Rockies
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Raised from the Dead
Looting, wildfires, pollution, vandalism, time, the elements—Western ghost towns have lots of enemies. Thankfully, they’ve also got friends like...
El Tiradito
El Tiradito, is located in Tucson’s Barrio Viejo and is supposed to be the world’s only shrine for a sinner. There are many versions of how the...
How did Old West Pioneers Acquire Honorific Titles?
How did Old West pioneers acquire honorific titles? Daniel Scuiry Berkeley, California An honorific is defined as a title that conveys esteem or...
“Died a Natural Death”
Miles Kellogg was a saloon owner and professional violinist in Tombstone in the early 1880s. The legends say that he was a passenger on the Bisbee...
A Thirst for Destruction
Carrie Amelia Moore, born in Kentucky on November 25, 1846, grew into a crusader who chopped her way to legend as Carrie Nation. In 1867, Carrie...
A Forgotten Tombstone Pioneer
Samantha Fallon is one of those Tombstone characters who hasn’t gotten much attention. She arrived in town in 1879. She owned The San Jose House,...
A Man of the West
Historians, students, collectors and fans of Western American art will be in debt to William Reynolds for many decades after his publication of Joe...
Aftermath of the Tombstone Gunfight
It was just three days after three men died in Tombstone’s street fight behind the OK Corral. Ike Clanton—who had run from the battle—decided to...
The Boss Drink
Pioneers were sipping ice cream soda waters as early as the 1860s, but ice cream sodas wouldn’t come along until the next decade. Ice cream soda...
Halloween and the Call of the Wild
There's an old folk story told in the mountains of Montana about a band of gray wolves that hunted relentlessly and remorselessly for human babies....
What History Has Taught Me: Myron R. Deibel
After earning a masters in business administration, Myron R. Deibel began his banking career in 1961 at Southern Arizona Bank in Tucson, Arizona. He...