The opening two sentences of John Boessenecker’s Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, The Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde (Thomas Dunne...

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, one of the New Deal programs was to pay writers to document the stories of everyday Americans. It was...

Carol Wright Crigger began her writing career using initials (C.K.) on the premise they would cause her work to be taken more seriously. These days...

John Wesley Hardin’s older brother Joe was lynched on June 6, 1874. At least part of the reason: Wes’ killing of Brown County Deputy Sheriff Charles...

Around 1860, Diltche was captured by another tribe and sold into slavery, taken far away from her home in north-eastern Arizona. She ended up at a...

Can you shed some light on a photo of Red Cloud’s wife in a cabin featuring a Japanese katana sword on the wall? Dan Dancer Salem, New Hampshire All...

One of the West’s most unusual gunfights occurred on the streets of Benson, Arizona on February 27th, 1907. It was between Arizona Ranger Lieutenant...

In 1874, newlywed Martha Summerhayes accompanied her soldier husband on a grueling three-month journey from Fort Russell, Wyoming, to Arizona, where...

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...