Stereotypical pairings often plague the American West. Outlaws and lawmen. War bonnets and Winchesters. Cattle drives and wagon trains. None,...
Bucking Broncos and Breaking Barriers
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Following the Guidon: Texas Frontier Forts
Texans take great pride in their storied past, which is as wide and as deep as the vast Lone Star State itself. Nowhere is a sense of bygone days...
A Fateful Game of Cards
A strange card game decided the fate of six Apache warriors, captured by U.S. troops in southwest Arizona in 1861. Lt. Isaiah Moore and Asst....
What History Has Taught Me: Gary L. Roberts
Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday Biographer An emeritus professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, Gary Roberts...
Chief Mangas Coloradas
In early 1861, the great Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas went to a mining camp at Santa Rita in New Mexico. He was going to tell the miners of richer...
Did Old West Trains Have Bathrooms?
Did Old West trains have bathrooms? Terry Gin Columbus, Ohio Yep, they sure did. Early toilets ranged from a Hooper Toilet, which was a hole in the...
Bandit Queen Belle Starr
Myra Maybelle Shirley, was another Old West personality who might have been forgotten had she not been reinvented by a novelist. The so-called...
Charles Poston
Charles Poston was several years away from being “The Father of Arizona” when he met with Apache leader Mangas Coloradas in southeast New Mexico in...
How Did “Killer” Jim Miller Escape Justice For So Long?
How did “Killer” Jim Miller escape justice for so long? Duff Hale Midlothian, Texas Early on, “Killer” Jim Miller kept a public front as a solid...
Old West Prisons Were No Place for Sissies
Rules For Inmates at the Wyoming Territorial Prison: Rules for Inmates: You will not be allowed to converse with each other on any subject...
Who Was the Best Huckleberry?
On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, a misdemeanor arrest in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, escalated out of control in a matter of moments. Thirty...
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,...