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...

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...