Allen Barra: In Wanted, you cite a friend of Billy the Kid declaring, “He was a good kid, but he got in the wrong company.” Does that accurately...

Wilbur Sanders was one of the true founding fathers of Montana—in a number of ways. The New York-born attorney came to the territory in late 1863. ...

Did frontier pioneers use whiskey as a medicine? Douglas Risley Henderson, Kentucky Yep, Old West pioneers considered whiskey the rough-and-ready...

The have been tall tales told about Belle Starr and Flora Quick robbing trains and stagecoaches but far as I know Pearl Hart was the only woman to...

Escaping Tucson on foot and with a posse soon to be on their trail, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and others hoof it 11 miles east on the railroad...

Annapolis resident Lucia St. Clair Robson has lived near the ocean much of her life. She grew up along the Atlantic Ocean in West Palm Beach,...

August 5, 1878 The Regulators are riding, 19 strong, as they come down through the canyon leading to the Mescalero Agency, perhaps looking for more...

Bank and train robber Jess Newton was on the lam in Mexico when he decided to compete in the Del Rio, TX rodeo on July 4, 1924.  The law was waiting...

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...