Zerelda James, mother of Frank and Jesse James, would agree that her kitchen was deadly. When she moved into her home in 1845, she would have no...

In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, basically prohibiting any and all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States....

Illinois-based Gerald Duff, a prolific writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, treads into dangerous territory in Playing Custer: A Novel. Not...

By the early 1880s, Colt was the undisputed leader in the handgun field. However, wishing to capture some of the rifle market, Colt acquired the...

Beginning in California in the 1830s flying dragons have been a fixture in the West. They appear to be an amalgamation of western European and...

Every summer, in July and August, we get the big dust storms that freak out everybody who isn’t from Arizona. And, by the way, we never called them...

Allen Barra: In Wanted, you cite a friend of Billy the Kid declaring, “He was a good kid, but he got in the wrong company.” Does that accurately...

Wilbur Sanders was one of the true founding fathers of Montana—in a number of ways. The New York-born attorney came to the territory in late 1863. ...

Did frontier pioneers use whiskey as a medicine? Douglas Risley Henderson, Kentucky Yep, Old West pioneers considered whiskey the rough-and-ready...

The have been tall tales told about Belle Starr and Flora Quick robbing trains and stagecoaches but far as I know Pearl Hart was the only woman to...

Escaping Tucson on foot and with a posse soon to be on their trail, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and others hoof it 11 miles east on the railroad...

Annapolis resident Lucia St. Clair Robson has lived near the ocean much of her life. She grew up along the Atlantic Ocean in West Palm Beach,...