Train robber John Reno made a big mistake when he got drunk in early 1867. He and pal Frank Sparks were imbibing in a Seymour, Indiana saloon owned...

The True West January 2016 issue published a photo of John Slaughter and several of his cowboys. Which one was his foreman at the San Bernardino...

On July 8, 1859, in Tubac, silver capitalist Sylvester Mowry and newspaper editor Edward Cross squared off with Burnside rifles at 40 paces. Cross...

The songs of the Dakota and Chippewa would have been lost forever had it not been for a Minnesota pioneer woman who decided their historical...

In the decades following the War between the States, there are old wounds yet to be healed between the North and the South.  Young cock-sure lawyer,...

Whether due to a break in the weather—the thermometer had gone as low as -43 degrees Fahrenheit—or just because they had no more time to waste if...

Author Bob DeArment, a prolific writer and expert on the Wild West, wrote a gripping story on Johnny Slaughter, the stagecoach driver killed on the...

They called Missouri Levi Rittenhouse “The Bandit Queen,” and in southeast Indiana. she probably was. Born into an outlaw family in 1840, she was...

Long before anyone ever mentioned Monica Lewinsky’s blue frock, everyone was talking about Laura Keene’s dress stained with President Abraham...

One of the most surefire, but unglamorous, ways to get rich in 1880s Arizona was to sell all the boomers merchandise. Tombstone merchants sold...

That's one of the names they called Sarah Bowman. “The Great Western” was another moniker—borrowing the name of the world's largest steamship. Both...

Why did the great artist Charlie Russell wear a red sash? Brian LaMoure Helena, Montana Cowboy artist Charlie Russell never wore a belt, but he...