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...

Utilizing heated marks to brand property dates back to the ancient Egyptians. By the Middle Ages, most of the European continent, especially Spain,...

That's how journalist Clara Spalding Brown first described Tombstone, Arizona Territory, when she arrived in June of 1880 from San Diego with her...

Since the earliest decades of Western settlements, authors have celebrated and iconized archetypal American heroes of the frontier. From Daniel...

Before Dakota Territory formed on March 2, 1861, the land was home to Fort Abercrombie—the first permanent U.S. military fort in what became North...

The legend: an orphaned “Killin” Jim Miller murdered his grandparents when he was a small child in Texas. The truth.  Miller was living with his...

With the National Football League’s Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers ready to square off against each other for the Lombardi Trophy in Super...

With all this talk going around about another Billy the Kid photo I submit to you Dale Crawford’s amazing discovery. There’s no disputing, there’s...