On vacation in Australia, Robert Utley had a great idea. Looking at a statue of the infamous bandit Ned Kelly in his bulletproof armor, it came to...

The Newton Boys pulled off dozens of bank and train holdups in the nineteen-teens and ‘20s.  Apparently it was hard to break the habit. March 5,...

Vicky Doolittle knew her great-aunt’s house in Mendon, Utah, contained an amazing secret. Yet when she tried to tell others in her family, they...

The Indians of the Columbia Basin first came into contact with Christian missionaries in 1825, when the chiefs of the Kutenai and Spokan tribes each...

One day during Tombstone’s boom times, a Gypsy came strolling into town with a bear on a leash. He announced to the gathering crowd that for only...

Indiana’s Reno Gang had a last hurrah on May 22, 1868.  They held up a train at Marshfield and got away with an estimated $96,000. But they also...

When the James-Younger Gang attempted to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, on September 7, 1876, the outlaws ran into a hornet’s...

In early 1897, Augustus Thomas was discouraged, despite being one of America’s finest playwrights. Thomas turned to a neighbor in New Rochelle, New...

John Tunstall is best known for his ties to Billy the Kid—but he almost never made it to New Mexico. At the age of 19, in 1872, he left his home in...

Now that our February 2016 issue is on Newsstands, we want to know what our readers think of our cover story, The Croquet Kid.  Do you think the...

Chambermaid May Killeen was a beautiful woman. She had many suitors, including Tombstone’s most colorful bachelor, Buckskin Frank Leslie....

In recent years, the University Press of Mississippi has established itself as a publishing leader in cinema biography with its Hollywood Legends...