Recently somebody asked me about the Oklahoma State University Cowboy’s mascot “Pistol Pete.” The West in the early 1900s had an abundance of...

Many have heard the story of the eccentric millionaire of the Victorian Era who spent the last 38 years of her life building, always building, a...

No matter how big our problems have been, at least one guy always claims to have the answers to everything. You know, that drunk guy at the bar....

In the 1960s, Joe Beeler rode his horse daily on a six-mile trip to his mailbox from his home on Oklahoma’s Quapaw Reservation. He hunted. And he...

During the years around 1900 a slippery outlaw named Rufus Nephew aka “Climax Jim” managed to foil lawmen again and again. One time he was indicted...

On a blustery October day in 1881 Tombstone, the Earp brothers—Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan—joined Doc Holliday in an attempt to disarm several cowboys....

James B. Hume’s father had plans for the boy—he would farm the family land in northern Indiana. But when Hume became a man, he had other ideas and...

Yuma, Arizona’s “attic” was all over town—60 years of historical records, photographs and family histories dating as far back as pre-1853 Gadsden...

Frank Canton, a feared killer and lawman, got his comeuppance in the early 1900s. He was drunk at the saloon at the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, WY....

“He will sigh to lose his friend, groan if his wife dies, but if his dog is lost by death, his grief is overwhelming.” That's how a 19th Century...

Could pioneers identify a person by the horse he was riding? Mary Zaborowski Houston, Texas Recognizing a horse came second nature to pioneers. One...

John Robert Baylor was an ambitious man, one who wanted position and power and recognition. He had shown that many times over between his move to...