The Rough Riders were already the most famous outfit in the U.S. Army, but when the first contingents arrived at the “International” fairgrounds in...

Bannack, Montana was a great boomtown of the Old West. Founded in 1862 at the time gold was discovered in the area, it soon had a population of an...

Hollywood finally got around this year to commemorating a mountain man that some have called “The Luckiest man in the West"--Hugh Glass. The movie...

On the road to meet their Waterloo at Northfield, Minnesota, Cole Younger met some children at the little town of St. Peter, north of Mankato who...

In March of 1882, Wyatt Earp and a hand-picked posse, including Doc Holliday, scoured the hills of Cochise County looking for cowboys who had a hand...

Forget Broadway! Some of early theaters’ brightest and most accomplished entertainers performed on stages throughout Arizona. In his book Arizona on...

Abraham Lincoln said precisely the wrong words in 1858, but standing by his famous speech landed him in precisely the right place two years later....

Merlin’s Hide Out came to be when I decided I needed a new pair of gators made from beaver hides. Instead of ordering them on the Internet, I...

It’s common knowledge in the Great Southwest that creeks usually have more water than rivers. The conduct of Arizona’s rivers is as wayward as that...

As anyone can imagine, there wasn't much entertainment in rural America—hard work, sweat and toil, boredom, yes, but entertainment? “This was the...

Presidential campaigns haven’t changed much. Making speeches and shaking hands in various towns and cities is still a part of the game. In 1900,...

Deep within the Dos Cabezas hills lived a feisty miner who spent the last 30 years of his life with Mary Katherine Cummings, better known as “Big...