Sometimes at night, the howling wind would commence to blow. For shelter, we pulled canvas bed tarps over our heads. Sitting around the campfire, we...

Before he became a famous Arizona rancher one might refer to Henry Clay Hooker was a turkey boy. It all began when he came west from his native New...

February 1868.  Frank Reno (photo) and members of his Indiana gang traveled to Iowa to rob county treasuries. Over the course of a few weeks, they...

In the spring of 1876, Henry Antrim worked as a bus boy at the Hotel de Luna at the edge of Camp Grant, Arizona Territory. Later he would change his...

Nevada is a state with an old and rich history. Searching for gold, silver and other precious minerals has lured hopeful seekers to Nevada since the...

The boom towns of the Old West had a shortage of eligible women and that void for the lusty young men was filled by what were euphemistically...

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...