Chris Madsen is famed as one of the Three Guardsmen, the deputy U.S. marshals (with Bill Tilghman and Heck Thomas) of the Oklahoma Territory.  His...

On March 20th, 1880 there was great cause for celebration in Tucson as the Southern Pacific Railroad had at long last arrived, linking the Old...

Marshall Trimble told me this story, so it just might be true: In 1889 a Yavapai County legislator had a habit of heading over to Prescott’s Whiskey...

My copy of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal is signed by L. Ross Earp and given to me by his sister, Bess Earp. Were they descended from...

Two iconic Western stars almost go together for a movie in the mid-1970s.  Almost. The story goes that Clint Eastwood wanted to work with John...

The government guaranteed Paha Sapa, the Black Hills, to the Lakota people through the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Six years later, the government...

What better adventure than to follow the trail blazed by Woodrow Call and Gus McRae—plus Dish, Deets, Newt and my personal favorite, Pea Eye Parker?...

Billy the Kid had a brother, or perhaps, a half-brother named Joe. Around 1880 he moved to Trinidad, Colorado where he made his living as a...

How many times have you heard someone looking at an antique firearm on display in a museum say, “I wonder how that works?” or “I wonder what it...

Texas Ranger Sgt. Tim Timberlake had a bad feeling—that an assignment to stop smuggler Encarnacion Delgado would be his last.  There were reasons;...

No one can come to the story of the Alamo without shock and awe. The tiny Spanish mission, built for prayer, not battle; 13 days in the cold of...

When Hollywood decided to make a movie adapted from the Broadway play Oklahoma in 1954 they couldn’t find a location in the Sooner State that...