Dan C. Johnson West Jefferson, North Carolina They are called carbine sockets. They came out during the Civil War and were used well into the 1880s....
After almost ten years of fighting, Pancho Villa sends a telegram to President Huerta requesting amnesty. Huerta agrees and gives Villa a huge...
Tom Collins—theater historian and presenter—has enjoyed a lifelong passion for acting and directing. At the University of Wisconsin-Platteville he...
Somewhere out in these rugged mountains of eastern Arizona, just maybe lies the greatest lost mine of them all…the Lost Adams Diggings. Because of...
The Conner family had been running roughshod in east Texas for several years when Texas Rangers went after them. In late March 1887, the two groups...
The Klondike and Yukon Rivers, bordering Alaska and Canada, were the final frontier for 19th-century miners out West. In the late 1890s, thousands...
No more unusual story has emerged from Texas’s long and bitter struggle for independence than that of John Christopher Columbus Hill. The account of...
Augustine Chacon was one of the last of the hard-riding desperadoes who rode the outlaw trail in the closing days of the 19th century. He was a...
Marvin “Red” Burton is in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. But one of his bravest acts came as a McLellan County deputy sheriff. He and the sheriff...
By 1848, John C. Frémont was a national hero. He had led three expeditions into the Great American Desert, and his maps opened the frontier West to...
John Wayne had a number of actors that he liked working with (and made sure that they had plenty of film opportunities). Hank Worden was toward the...
Old timers used to say, “Anybody who’s ever tried to put a braid in a mule’s tale knows a thing or two more about the subject than someone who...