Tracy Beach’s latest book, My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens, 1871-1953, brings to life the story of one of Colorado’s infamous...

Raoul Walsh’s movie career began in 1912 and lasted more than half a century. A protégé of D.W. Griffith—he played John Wilkes Booth in Griffith’s...

One of Arizona’s most enduring brands had its beginning back in 1885 when Fred Fritz Sr. settled along the Blue River, north of Clifton, and started...

"Sheet-Iron Jack" Allen, was an California horse thief who wore an iron vest when plying his trade. Jack earned his nickname after surviving four...

Wyatt Earp had no luck selling his version of the Tombstone events during his lifetime. But shortly after his death in 1929, gangster movies became...

An old photograph depicts an Indian burial scaffold with a dead horse in the foreground. Was that normal? Gareth McNair-Lewis Bryantown, Maryland...

Western author Emerson Hough (photo) was a friend of Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid.  And when Garrett was assassinated in 1908,...

Rotten Row was the name Tombstonians affectionately called a row of buildings on 4th Street between Toughnut and Allen Streets. Conveniently located...

He showed up in Tombstone in the summer of 1881, without a gun, without a name and without clothes. The bronzed visitor insisted on being called “O...

Los Angeles is my hometown. As a writer and historian for many years, I have come to believe that L.A. is “the West’s most Western city.” Yale...