The outhouse beind the Tivoli Gardens on Allen Street was the starting point for Tombstone’s second major fire in March of 1882. Within an hour, the...

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s showmanship was virtually unchallenged throughout his lifetime, yet he did not possess a strong business acumen. At...

William S. Hart was one of the first Western stars—one of the biggest movie stars of the nineteen-teens and ‘20s.  But his earlier work was a little...

When did bowling reach Arizona? Paul W. Hughes Vacaville, California The earliest bowling alley I found in Arizona was Vogan’s Saloon in Tombstone...

Armchair authorities and Hot Stove Historians continue to argue as to who or what started the “Street Fight” near the OK Corral. I like the late...

Drinking too much alcohol in the Old West was a year-round sporting event and, of course, had its own slang. If someone was drunk they were “in...

That's what it amounted to, one of the great memories of the American West—the Pony Express: 80 skinny boys and their fast ponies. This western...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokees from their homeland to Oklahoma. Probably few...

Paris was a city Buffalo Bill’s Wild West hoped to conquer. Cody’s show proved a sensation. Parisians flocked to Neuilly to see the Wild West...

October 6, 1899.  Pat Garrett and two men went to the Bill Cox ranch in New Mexico to arrest an alleged killer.  The subject fought back and was...

Hard rock miners were a superstitions breed. Among the most unusual of these were the “Tommyknockers.” These were mischievous little people who...

In July of 1862, a U.S. Army advance detachment entered Apache Pass where they were attacked by some 500 Apaches led by Mangas Coloradas and...