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...

When the James-Younger Gang attempted to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, on September 7, 1876, the outlaws ran into a hornet’s...

In early 1897, Augustus Thomas was discouraged, despite being one of America’s finest playwrights. Thomas turned to a neighbor in New Rochelle, New...