Thank the Grand Canyon. Long before it was a national park—before it was even a game preserve, thanks to President Teddy Roosevelt—this steep-sided...
Riders of the Purple Sage
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Whistle Stop Tour
As Nebraska gets ready to celebrate 150 years of statehood, you likely know these facts: it is the only state with a unicameral legislature;...
Lon Megargee
Lon Megargee is often characterized as Arizona’s original cowboy artist. He was born in 1883 just about the time Buffalo Bill Cody was transforming...
Stevens County Seat War Massacre
Kansas’ Stevens County Seat War produced a terrible massacre in July 1885. Citizens of Hugoton and Woodland—both vying for the county seat...
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...