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...

How many Old West women robbed a train, bank or stagecoach? Jim Merrill Las Vegas, Nevada Tall tales claim Belle Starr and Flora Mundis robbed...

Oriental Saloon owner Milt Joyce was one tough old bird. On October 11, 1880, Joyce beat Doc Holliday within an inch of his life after the good...

In the summer of 1864, Robert McGee, a tall, slender orphan of 14 years, attempted enlistment at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. He was rejected....

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...