Fires were always a serious threat to frontier towns, hillside communities were the most vulnerable. The boomtowns of Bisbee and Jerome all burned...

The most famous gunfight of the Wild West era took place on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Over the past 135...

Deputy Jim Flynn ran unsuccessfully for city marshal of Tombstone on January 3, 1882. Two weeks later, working as a policeman, he disarmed and...

Charles Stone is best known as an infamously treated scapegoat. In his concise and well-sourced biography, Blaine Lamb—author of The Extraordinary...

One of the forerunners of Old West gangs controlled parts of Upstate New York in the first half of the 19th Century. The Loomis Gang was led by six...

The spoiled first three sons—Richard Widmark, Hugh O’Brian and Earl Holliman— of Spencer Tracy’s cattleman character can’t abide their half-breed,...

Burt Alvord was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, his IQ numbers would pretty much match his waist size. The hobbies included practical jokes,...

Ben Herndon Los Angeles, California Horses can run fast only so long, depending on the conditioning and the breed. Quarter horses are bred for...

For more than a century, the Thomas Sharkey versus Robert Fitzsimmons fight of 1896 has been an ugly blemish on the complexion of Wyatt Earp. Dozens...

Big Jim French was at most of the important actions in the Lincoln County War. Perhaps most notably, he was one of the gunmen—along with Billy the...

  "So, you’re the people who save things.” Bob McDaniel was looking for exactly those kind of people because this lifelong resident of Santa...