Arizona’s so-called “Classic Gunfight” starred a couple of men, Joe Phy and Pete Gabriel, who really aren’t household names in the world of famous...

In 1857 Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives commanded an expedition to explore the Colorado River. After wrecking their 54-foot paddlewheel steamboat,...

Did Tombstone diarist George W. Parsons ever marry the girl he referred to as “Natalie?” Ken Bock Mansfield, Ohio Christine Rhodes, Cochise County...

The silver mining camp of Silver City, New Mexico, took all of three years after its founding to form its first baseball team. The Silver City...

He was born in Philadelphia as Alonzo Megarge III in 1883. Inspired by a Buffalo Bill Cody performance, Alonzo moved to Arizona at age 13 and sought...

The question often comes up, which outlaw gang pulled in the most booty. Most believe it was Frank, Jesse and the Younger brothers or the Daltons....

Was stuntman Joe Canutt related to Yakima Canutt? Duff Hale Midlothian, Texas Harry Joe Canutt was Yakima’s second son. Yakima’s eldest son, Edward...

They were more than the sum of their parts, 19th-century surveyors, the unheralded vanguards of the Old West who established original geographical...

The Pinkertons had their own way of doing things. The agency was trying to get three labor leaders (photo) to Idaho to face charges for allegedly...

What became known as the “Dodge City War” began when Luke Short returned in April, 1881 and went to work at the Long Branch Saloon. Two years later...

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,...