On September 2nd, 1887, Jim Roberts, along with several members of the Tewksbury family, were at the Lower Tewksbury Ranch on Cherry Creek (both the...
Gunfight at Cherry Creek
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Articles
A Cold Ride into Hell
February 10, 1918 In the bitter cold, a four-man posse riding in from Klondyke, Arizona, surrounds a lone cabin in Kielberg Canyon. The posse—a...
The Last Days of the Pleasant Valley War
By mid-September Pleasant Valley War was making national news and lawmen from the Yavapai County seat at Prescott were moving through the area...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival (Five Star Publishing, $25.95) by Matthew P. Mayo is a novel crafted around Janette Riker, an actual Argonaut...
How Many People Died During the Indian Wars?
How many people died during the Indian Wars? Paul Gortarez Phoenix, Arizona Considering the isolated skirmishes and unrecorded killings on both...
End of the Line
California train robbers Chris Evans and John Sontag had evaded posses for four months, through six fights. But they were finally cornered at a...
A Texas Dance For Johnny Reb
Of all of the Confederate-made revolvers, perhaps none stirs the imagination like those six-shooters manufactured by the J.H. Dance Bros. of Texas....
The Knife Didn’t Cut
Robert Ford received threats after killing Jesse James in 1881. People didn’t like that he’d shot the outlaw in the back of the head—or tried to...
Death for a Killer
Ed O’Kelley is best known for killing Jesse James’ assassin Robert Ford in 1892. After O’Kelley did 10 years in the Colorado pen for the murder, he...
The Aftermath of the Pleasant Valley War
The “war proper,” as they called it, was over; however, assassinations and lynching’s would continue for quite some time. It’s been said fifty-four...
Lost Photo of Crook’s Scout Discovered?
John Campbell Burge is one of my favorite Territorial Arizona photographers. Though his work is less common than other early Arizona photographers,...
Manhunters
Robert DeArment’s near 40-year writing career is amazing, and he’s still cranking out new books at the age of 92—and books of quality and substance,...