A man first deemed to be a swashbuckler quickly spiraled into a scam artist. That man, Dr. Charles A. Pryor, stands next to rebel leader Pancho...

Spoiler alert!  John Wayne made sure the ending of his last film, The Shootist, was to his liking. His character, the dying gunfighter J.B. Books,...

Elmer McCurdy wanted to be an outlaw in the worst way….and that’s what he became…an outlaw in the worst way. His criminal career was distinguished...

In Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache author W. Michael Farmer describes the plight of the Mescalero Apaches of...

"Well, I have learned a little of the soldier’s life; I have learned how to make a charge when the command is given, and how to stand my ground and...

Back in the 1960s, actor Lee Marvin was slated to play gang leader Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch—even before director Sam Peckinpah became involved...

These days, the name is on a Las Vegas casino and a Dawson City theater, but folks in Yuma, Arizona, knew the real man behind the name. He was born...

Nearly six years after the Battle of San Jacinto seemed to solidify Texas independence, Mexico reconsidered—with force. The Treaties of Velasco,...

Oklahoma train robber Al Jennings has become the model for outlaw incompetence in the Old West. He did however, manage to provide some comic-relief...

Chances are good that Eloise Fox ran away from a convent at the age of 16 in 1914 because of either a sexy cowboy or a chance to break out of the...

Texas’ Mannen Clements (photo) was a rancher, feudist, gunfighter—and cousin of John Wesley Hardin and father-in-law of Jim Miller. He could be a...

As a book reviewer and editor of Western Books for True West magazine, I am truly amazed the formidable fascination of publisher’s with the life of...