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,...

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...