In 1879, Ross Woods got the last breakfast eggs at the Stratford Hotel restaurant in Shakespeare, New Mexico. This didn’t sit well with Bean Belly...

Why do people mount horses from the left side? Michael C. Westlund Clarkdale, Arizona The custom dates at least to Medieval times. Most warriors...

Making the film should have been easy.  Movies from Larry McMurtry’s novels—1963’s Hud and 1971’s The Last Picture Show—had already earned five...

One of the enduring, outrageous legends in Arizona is that a demonic, rogue camel with a skeleton on its back, killed and terrorized the country...

When Eve Ball started telling the “oral history” stories she'd heard from the last living warriors who knew Cochise, Victorio, Juh and Geronimo,...

Entertaining Women—Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West by Chris Enss is a wonderful book that documents the struggles of strong,...

Sometimes at night, the howling wind would commence to blow. For shelter, we pulled canvas bed tarps over our heads. Sitting around the campfire, we...

Before he became a famous Arizona rancher one might refer to Henry Clay Hooker was a turkey boy. It all began when he came west from his native New...

February 1868.  Frank Reno (photo) and members of his Indiana gang traveled to Iowa to rob county treasuries. Over the course of a few weeks, they...

In the spring of 1876, Henry Antrim worked as a bus boy at the Hotel de Luna at the edge of Camp Grant, Arizona Territory. Later he would change his...

Nevada is a state with an old and rich history. Searching for gold, silver and other precious minerals has lured hopeful seekers to Nevada since the...

The boom towns of the Old West had a shortage of eligible women and that void for the lusty young men was filled by what were euphemistically...