The most influential writer I read in high school was William Shakespeare.  The Bard’s humor, syntax and vocabulary were a great help 30 years later...

Sam Lone Bear was the Beau Brummell of his time and a savant. At least that was what the newspapers reported in 1899, and they were correct. He was...

On June 28, 1897, O’Day and four other outlaws (Harvey Logan, George Currie, Walt Punteney and perhaps the Sundance Kid) held up the Butte County...

She was a 23-year-old pioneer woman in 1882 when she and her husband arrived in a covered wagon in Arizona Territory from Utah. With a group of 18...

Russian Bill has been described as a man who wanted to be an outlaw in the worst way and that’s what he became after he arrived in Arizona in 1880....

Someone once asked me on “Ask the Marshall” what I considered Hollywood’s best western gunfights. I chose “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The...

In 1859, Arizona’s first newspaper, The Arizonian, reported on a duel in Tubac, Arizona. An estimated 1,000 men from the area showed up, including...

Texas bred tough men, and none came any tougher than Frank Hamer. He was to the Lone Star State what Wyatt Earp was to Arizona and what Wild Bill...

She's remembered in history as Big Nose Kate and as Doc Holliday's on-again-off-again girlfriend. And sure, she had a large nose, but she also had...

The question comes up from time to time: Was Wyatt Earp carrying a Smith and Wesson American revolver at the OK Corral Gunfight? That story has been...

September 27, 1864. Seventeen-year-old Jesse James puts the first notch on his gun. He, his brother Frank and other members of Bloody Bill...

1. Opening Scene Battle with the Arikaras: Andrew Henry’s group did not battle the Arikaras. The Arikaras attacked the group led by Henry’s partner,...