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...

John Tunstall is best known for his ties to Billy the Kid—but he almost never made it to New Mexico. At the age of 19, in 1872, he left his home in...

Now that our February 2016 issue is on Newsstands, we want to know what our readers think of our cover story, The Croquet Kid.  Do you think the...

Chambermaid May Killeen was a beautiful woman. She had many suitors, including Tombstone’s most colorful bachelor, Buckskin Frank Leslie....

In recent years, the University Press of Mississippi has established itself as a publishing leader in cinema biography with its Hollywood Legends...

Tracy Beach’s latest book, My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens, 1871-1953, brings to life the story of one of Colorado’s infamous...

Raoul Walsh’s movie career began in 1912 and lasted more than half a century. A protégé of D.W. Griffith—he played John Wilkes Booth in Griffith’s...

One of Arizona’s most enduring brands had its beginning back in 1885 when Fred Fritz Sr. settled along the Blue River, north of Clifton, and started...

"Sheet-Iron Jack" Allen, was an California horse thief who wore an iron vest when plying his trade. Jack earned his nickname after surviving four...

Wyatt Earp had no luck selling his version of the Tombstone events during his lifetime. But shortly after his death in 1929, gangster movies became...

An old photograph depicts an Indian burial scaffold with a dead horse in the foreground. Was that normal? Gareth McNair-Lewis Bryantown, Maryland...