Kansas’ Stevens County Seat War produced a terrible massacre in July 1885. Citizens of Hugoton and Woodland—both vying for the county seat...
Stevens County Seat War Massacre
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Tom Harper Hangs
Tom Harper was a good friend of Curly Bill Brocius during Tombstone’s heyday. He also bit the dust before his Cowboy associates. In September 1880,...
A Divided America
The story of the Underground Railroad, the antebellum, sub-rosa conspiracy to lead escaped slaves from Southern plantations to freedom in the North,...
Almost Famous
On June 10, 1883, eight men walked into a large tent, the temporary photography studio of 26-year-old Charles A. Conkling in Dodge City, Kansas. The...
Peg Leg Smith and His Lost Gold Mine
Thomas Smith, ranks right up there with America's legendary mountain men, including Bill Williams, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Joe Walker, Jed Smith...
Who Was Joseph Walker?
Who was Joseph Walker? Jimmy Walker Tullahoma, Tennessee Joseph Rutherford Walker was one of America’s greatest Mountain Men, scouts and...
battle of adobe walls
If you visit Tombstone’s Boot Hill Cemetery, you’ll find a marker for John Heath. He was the brains behind the so-called Bisbee Massacre, a...
Vigilante Justice
Research is a treasure hunt, and author Nancy J. Taniguchi found a big, shiny nugget for her Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence and the San Francisco...
Arizona’s Shangri La
When one imagines pristine Arizona’s dry, desolate, sun-baked deserts in the 1850s it’s difficult to picture any of it as being a utopian Shangri La...
No Wounds In His Back
The Alamo’s anniversary, March 6, ignites lively debate every year among aficionados concerning the how, why and where of every aspect of that epic...
Classic Gunfights: To the Last Man
July 22, 1884 The fuse to one of the West’s most famous feuds is lit a month prior, when Tonto Basin cattleman James Stinson makes a secret pact...
Death Valley Scotty
It was called The Battle of Wingate Pass—but it was a con job by the famed Walter “Death Valley Scotty” Scott. In 1906, Scotty was taking an...