In June 1863, Montana lawman D.H. Dillingham started thinking that other deputies were involved in a series of robberies. Buck Stinson...

Trading posts began appearing on Arizona Indian reservations in the early 1870s. These isolated stores provided food and other goods in exchange for...

History mostly remembers the Sanford name for Leland Sanford—a governor of California who was president of the Central Pacific Railroad and drove...

Did Paulita Maxwell bear Billy the Kid’s child? L.T. Robinson                                                                                      ...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act may have been the match that lit the fuse of the Civil War. Some claimed the law was an effort by gutless bureaucrats to...

Author and Rim Country historian, Jayne Peace Pyle, has been writing the history of the Mogollon Rim country for many years. Her latest work tells...

Amazing but true—the familiar gold boxes of chocolates were debuted in Philadelphia in 1842. That discovery raises the question, what about other...

It’s one of the most iconic—and perhaps morbid—photos of the Bandit War. Captain Monroe Fox and two other Texas Rangers have lariats around the dead...

He was a newborn, born February 11, 1805, when he was strapped on his mother's back for a “Journey of Discovery” with Lewis and Clark. He was the...

Pendleton, Oregon, got its start in 1862 when Moses Goodwin traded a span of mules for land and built a bridge over the Umatilla River. It became a...

She was beautiful, or, she was a toothless hag. She had coal-black hair, or, she had a shock of red hair. She was from Sonora, Mexico, or France....

Herman Lehmann lived an extraordinary life. In 1870, the 10-year-old was kidnapped by Apaches near Mason, TX. He lived with them for about seven...