October 6, 1899.  Pat Garrett and two men went to the Bill Cox ranch in New Mexico to arrest an alleged killer.  The subject fought back and was...

Hard rock miners were a superstitions breed. Among the most unusual of these were the “Tommyknockers.” These were mischievous little people who...

In July of 1862, a U.S. Army advance detachment entered Apache Pass where they were attacked by some 500 Apaches led by Mangas Coloradas and...

One 1895 headline reads like the opening to a bad joke: “A Grocer, a Woman [and] an Officer of the Law....” In March 1895, in Kansas City, Missouri,...

Chris Madsen is famed as one of the Three Guardsmen, the deputy U.S. marshals (with Bill Tilghman and Heck Thomas) of the Oklahoma Territory.  His...

On March 20th, 1880 there was great cause for celebration in Tucson as the Southern Pacific Railroad had at long last arrived, linking the Old...

Marshall Trimble told me this story, so it just might be true: In 1889 a Yavapai County legislator had a habit of heading over to Prescott’s Whiskey...

My copy of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal is signed by L. Ross Earp and given to me by his sister, Bess Earp. Were they descended from...

Two iconic Western stars almost go together for a movie in the mid-1970s.  Almost. The story goes that Clint Eastwood wanted to work with John...

The government guaranteed Paha Sapa, the Black Hills, to the Lakota people through the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Six years later, the government...

What better adventure than to follow the trail blazed by Woodrow Call and Gus McRae—plus Dish, Deets, Newt and my personal favorite, Pea Eye Parker?...

Billy the Kid had a brother, or perhaps, a half-brother named Joe. Around 1880 he moved to Trinidad, Colorado where he made his living as a...