Louis J.F. Jaeger arrived at the storied Yuma Crossing in July, 1850 where he started a ferry business to transport California gold seekers and...
Colorado City, Arizona City, and Finally Yuma
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Articles
More than a Barkeep
The movies portray Milt Joyce as your basic barkeep, a working owner of Tombstone’s Oriental Saloon. And that’s just one small slice of this...
Doc’s Diet
True West caught up with Dennis Quaid who will serve as Grand Marshal of the Doc Holli-Days parade in Tombstone, Arizona, this August 11. Nearly 25...
Shooting the Silhouette
The story goes that Buckskin Frank Leslie used to stand his wife May against a wall and shoot bullets in an outline around her body—something that...
Rough Drafts
Summer vacations are a great time to catch up on reading, so why not pack a few good Western novels and Old West histories and biographies to enjoy...
Frontier Women
“I felt a secret joy to have the power that set things straight.” Anonymous Women performed a labor more valuable than gold by pressing for schools,...
The Gang Lawyer
Jason Brevoort Brown was an opportunist, a lawyer and politician in Indiana during the last half of the 19th century. He represented the Jackson...
Virginia City, Nevada: Queen of the Comstock
In its boom days in the early 1860s, Virginia City, Nevada, “royally roosted” midway up the steep slope of Mount Davidson, a boomtown visible from...
Rattlesnake Bites
It’s the time of year when rattlesnakes are more likely to hole up during the daytime and be active at night so I thought it best to share what to...
Were Schoolteachers Armed during the Old West Era?
Were schoolteachers armed during the Old West era? Dave Fuller Lisbon, Connecticut Most schoolteachers were women, and the good ones knew how to...
Ride That Train!
In 1868, America was anticipating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad within the next year. The Central Pacific from Sacramento...
Land Grabbers
By 1865, the Wilkison Reno family owned more land than anyone else in Jackson County, IN. They got it the old fashioned way: crime. The acquired...