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...

  Outlaws Harry Tracy (photo) and Dave Merrill were more than partners—they were brothers-in-law, with Tracy marrying Merrill’s sister. They...

Deaf Smith was one of the most celebrated patriots in the Texas fight for independence. His greatest contribution in the war was his skill as a...

There are two theories on how African-American troops stationed in nineteenth century Arizona became known as “Buffalo Soldiers.” Native Americans...

  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...