James Gillett had been a noted Texas Ranger for three years when he led a group of Rangers to Round Rock, TX in July 1878. The plan—head off the Sam...

The only physical remnant of one of the West’s more unusual survival stories is an all-too-graphic reminder of the pain and suffering that frontier...

The Comstock Lode of Nevada was the richest silver strike, the "Granddaddy" of them all. In the Washoe Mountains, east of the Sierra Nevada, three...

  Nestled in a high, wide valley near the southwest corner of Montana, the Big Hole National Battlefield is a hidden gem forged in the heat of...

Most of us are familiar with the saying, “Ay Chihuahua!” which is the Spanish equivalent of “Yikes!” The entire saying is, “Ay Chihuahua, cuantos...

The history of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War has been written about from a number of various angles and points of view beginning with Zane Grey’s...

On September 8th, 1858, during construction of the Butterfield Stage Station at Dragoon Springs in Cochise County, Butterfield employees Silas St....

She was Colorado's first black settler, a prosperous entrepreneur who devoted her time and money to helping others. She was honored throughout the...

In 1835, a large, obnoxious, French-Canadian trapper named Joseph Chouinard went looking for Americans to bully at the annual trapper’s rendezvous...

Jim Talbot—real name James Sherman—finally got his.  In 1881, he engineered a huge gunfight in Caldwell, KS that killed lawman/mayor Mike Meagher...

Did the 7th Cavalry carry sabers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn? Jerry Bellini                                                                ...