Imagine Oklahoma Territory’s Fort Sill in 1895, almost 10 years after the surrender of Geronimo. Imagine Mexico’s Sierra Madre, where hit-and-run...
William Wilson’s Hanging
William Wilson killed Robert Casey (in photo) in August 1875 in Lincoln, NM in an incident that preceded the power war that was about to come. ...
Wild Bill’s Paranoia
Since we know the end of this story, we can understand. Wild Bill Hickok long worried his notoriety would make him an attractive target for an...
The Reluctant Hero
Nobody else seethed like the great American character actor Robert Ryan. In more than 75 films, including The Naked Spur, Bad Day at Black Rock and...
Hugh Glass’s Deadly Journey
In the winter of 1833, ten years after Hugh Glass was attacked by a grizzly and left for dead, the mountain man took a message to Fort Union with Ed...
Antics at the Bird Cage Theater
Down on the corner of Allen Street and 6th Street was the Bird Cage, a theater that catered more to Tombstone’s working class. It was built by a...
Nature’s Complexion
They say that “Dame Nature” never made a bad complexion, but there's a billion-dollar industry to disagree. And even in the old west, where they...
Seats of Luxury
In 1852, flush times abounded at Christmas in Uniontown, located in the Humboldt Bay area of northern California. Argonauts paid Seth Kinman and...
What’s in a Name?
Everyone knows that Billy the Kid went by several names—Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, William Bonney—but who was Phoebe Anne Mozee? Who was Josiah...
The Bird Cage Theater
Down on the corner of Allen Street and 6th Street was the Bird Cage, a theater that catered more to Tombstone’s working class. It was built by a...
What happened to Pancho Villa’s henchman Rodolfo Fierro?
What happened to Pancho Villa’s henchman Rodolfo Fierro? Chuck Shumway Dewey, Arizona Rodolfo Fierro, known as El Carnicero, or the Butcher, was...
Spirit of the Prairie Celebrated
Kansas native Marcia Lawrence recently published Spirit of the Prairie: The History of the Making of the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Pageant...