Rise of the Cowboy Before the Mexican-American War concluded in 1848, American traders who traveled to the Western frontier encountered Spanish...

William Rynerson (in photo) is best known as a prosecuting attorney and enemy of the Regulators in the Lincoln County War.  But he gained special...

It took Alameda County (CA) Sheriff Harry Morse (in photo) two tries to take down gunslinger Narato Ponce. Ponce was wanted for murder when Morse...

I’m a fan of AMC’s Hell on Wheels. Is the route constructed from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, still in use today? Mark Wilson...

Those lawyers on the frontier could be pretty resourceful when it came to Hoodoo and stopped off to pay a visit to a local sporting house where he...

Tombstonians bragged with civic pride their prostitutes were superior in charity, decorum, honesty and manners than those in towns like Bisbee,...

By the time Nellie Trent Bush won national attention as “Admiral of Arizona's Navy,” Arizona well knew it had one helluva woman in its midst. But...

Bob Olinger was Billy the Kid’s last victim, but he was also deadly himself. In 1876, Olinger and a pal were gambling in a New Mexico saloon.  The...

In 1872 Wyatt Earp and his brother Morgan were arrested in Peoria, Illinois, for being aboard a floating bagnio (a brothel). Wyatt was arrested more...

When did the practice of branding livestock begin in the U.S.? Jim Martin Waco, Texas Branding of livestock dates to the Egyptians to around 2,700...

Jim French is one of the most mysterious members of Billy the Kid’s Regulator gang. Where he came from and what happened to him?  Nobody knows. ...

I have traveled 68,000 miles over 30 years searching for cowboys. I enjoy the tintype medium because tintypes slow you down to consider the image...