So what caused Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to split up—as friends and Vendetta Ride colleagues—in 1882? In a 1940 letter, former New Mexico governor...

They called him Three-legged Willie but before anyone starts drawin’ conclusions; Robert Williamson was famous Texas veteran of the Battle of San...

If you believe popular history and the movies, Wyatt Earp cleaned up outlaw-infested Cochise County at the O.K. Corral in 1881. If you are a fan of...

If Billy the Kid would have been given a fair trial in the Cahill incident, would the Kid have been convicted of murder or a lesser charge?...

As this special issue honors the best pictures of cowboys, it certainly seems fitting that we also honor the best Cowboy Pictures, those movies that...

A tumbleweed wagon was a jail on wheels used to take prisoners to a more permanent jail or prison. They called em “tumbleweed wagons” because like...

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,...