A bit of New Mexico history was lost recently. The Old Dowlin Mill in Ruidoso was destroyed by a gas explosion and fire. It was the oldest...
A Big Loss
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Hooch Simpson
Joseph “Hooch” Simpson holds the distinction of being the last person lynched in California. On April 19th, 1908 in Skidoo, California, Hooch...
Who Was the Fastest Gun in Hollywood?
Who was the fastest gun in Hollywood? Ron Bolza Slatington, Pennsylvania Some of the names might surprise you. How about Sammy Davis Jr. and Jerry...
The O.K. Corral Mystery Man
H.F. Sills was the mystery man of the O.K. Corral hearing. Sills was visiting Tombstone at the time of the shootout and had no connections to...
Annie Oakley’s Rival
Annie Oakley wasn’t the only great female sharpshooter in the 19th century. In fact, many people thought that Lillian Smith was even better than...
Ike Clanton
Ike and Fin Clanton had survived the Cochise County War against Wyatt Earp and his brothers five years earlier and had moved their Cattle thieving...
True West Best of the West Heritage Travel
Driving across the endless grasslands and cultivated fields of the prairie and plains of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado to the Rocky Mountains,...
What History Has Taught Me: Dan Harshberger
A Commercial Art graduate of Northern Arizona University, Dan Harshberger grew up with his best bud, Bob Boze Bell, in Kingman, Arizona. In the...
The 65 Most Important Historical Photos From the McCubbin Collection
A charter subscriber to this magazine, which first hit newsstands in 1953, Robert G. McCubbin has been collecting original photographs ever since....
How Was Life in Territory Prisons?
How was life in territory prisons? Jim Spell Sonora, California Life in territory prisons was pretty tough, overall. For example, in Arizona...
Judge Roy Bean
When a passenger train pulled into the little town of Langtry to take on water the passengers had about twenty minutes to flock to the Jersey Lillie...
Mining the Optics
Four-year-old Albert Michelson reached the California Gold Rush town of Murphy’s Camp in 1856, after a voyage that took him from his native Prussia...