What happened in the Billy Allen-”Doc” Holliday fight over $5? Jim Reynolds Sumner, Washington William J. Allen was a lawman in Leadville, Colorado,...

What happened in the Billy Allen-”Doc” Holliday fight over $5? Jim Reynolds Sumner, Washington William J. Allen was a lawman in Leadville, Colorado,...
For 55 years, Robert M. Utley has been informing, entertaining and enlightening readers with his well-researched biographies and histories of the...
Visiting the Maynard Dixon cabin is like walking into a Maynard Dixon painting. For the last seven years of his life, Maynard and his wife, muralist...
Springtime is awards season for books, television and film, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum of Oklahoma City recently...
Charlie Bassett’s story has been eclipsed—by the legends of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Yet for much of the 1870s, Bassett was the law in Dodge...
Sgt. Emanuel Stance was a hero, the first Buffalo Soldier to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. He led a patrol against a group of Apaches in...
People need heroes and if they don’t have ‘em they have to invent ‘em. The Old West didn’t have that problem because they had an abundance of the...
Gladys Johnson Sims and ex-husband Ed Sims (photo) were in the middle of a Texas-sized custody battle over their two daughters. They both came to...
Jim Fergus’s sequel to The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (St. Martin’s Press, $26.99) is based on...
Nestled on the slopes of the cone-shaped Cleopatra Hill, Jerome was once the third largest city in Arizona and the pride of the territory. She was a...
On March 4, 1869, a rather unlikely candidate took his oath of office as the eighteenth president of the United States. The image of Ulysses S....
Jesse Evans and his gang acted like they were headed to Mexico in early July 1880. But it was a fake, trying to fool the law. The outlaws turn and...