On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, a misdemeanor arrest in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, escalated out of control in a matter of moments. Thirty...
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The Lucky Cuss Mine
The story of rags-to-riches prospector Ed Schieffelin and his Lucky Cuss Mine is one of Arizona’s greatest Horatio Algier success stories. In 1877,...
Battle for Paradise
David K. Randall has fully recounted for the first time the legendary Southern California Rindge Family land war in The King and Queen of Malibu:...
DVD Review: One-Eyed Jacks
After languishing in unwatchable 99-cent copies, 1961’s One-Eyed Jacks (Criterion Collection; $29.95), the last Vista Vision movie, has been...
Hell on the Buffalo Range
Life on the buffalo range was hard, dangerous work, often accomplished in extreme heat or freezing conditions, sometimes under the watchful eye of...
Frontier Justice For Sale
For nearly 40 years, film distributors and filmmakers from around the world have annually converged in Santa Monica, California, to buy and...
Plump, Plumper, Plumpest
The headline brings an immediate chuckle: “How to be Plump.” Say what? Yes, in Victorian times, this 1988 book declares, there was a very different...
Roosevelt’s Badlands
He was known as a man of action, speaking softly but carrying a big stick. He led a group of volunteers called the Rough Riders to victory and fame...
Get Your Kicks on Route 66 with Doc and Wyatt
Did you know that Doc and Wyatt got their kicks on Arizona’s Route 66 decades before Tod and Buz? Well, maybe not exactly, but they did get their...
In Search of Doc Holliday
October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona Territory, 2:48 p.m. The unforgettable smell of death and gunpowder hung in the air like eternity. The wails of...
Cyclone Bill
Bill Beck was a well-known character to the bartenders around Arizona. He’d studied law as a young man in Texas but didn’t practice long. No sooner...
The Loneliest Road to Old West History
With its turquoise skies, billowing thunderheads, wide deserts and blue mountains, Central Nevada is right out of a Maynard Dixon landscape....