Gunman Barney Riggs (photo, seated center) was tending bar in Pecos, TX in October 1896 when two men approached and drew down.  John Denson and Bill...

As my mailbox is filling up with publishers’ spring catalogues, and my list of must reads for 2016 grows ever longer, I scan book shelf space...

Utilizing heated marks to brand property dates back to the ancient Egyptians. By the Middle Ages, most of the European continent, especially Spain,...

That's how journalist Clara Spalding Brown first described Tombstone, Arizona Territory, when she arrived in June of 1880 from San Diego with her...

Since the earliest decades of Western settlements, authors have celebrated and iconized archetypal American heroes of the frontier. From Daniel...

Before Dakota Territory formed on March 2, 1861, the land was home to Fort Abercrombie—the first permanent U.S. military fort in what became North...

The legend: an orphaned “Killin” Jim Miller murdered his grandparents when he was a small child in Texas. The truth.  Miller was living with his...

With the National Football League’s Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers ready to square off against each other for the Lombardi Trophy in Super...

With all this talk going around about another Billy the Kid photo I submit to you Dale Crawford’s amazing discovery. There’s no disputing, there’s...

Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Kirk Ellis grew up all over Texas, but today, when he is not working in Los Angeles, he makes his home with his...

In the last seconds of his life, Col. George Armstrong Custer tried to bite off the nose of the warrior who was killing him. It was June 25, 1876 at...

During the 1920s the federal government decided to build a dam on the Gila. Unfortunately, the surveyors picked an unusually wet year. They picked a...