What does “four-flusher” mean? Walter Serafin Shawnee, Kansas Wordsmith Ramon F. Adams defined a four-flusher as a bluffer, an incompetent person...

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, is best remembered for his active outdoor lifestyle. Whether one envisions Roosevelt leading the attack...

Belle Starr rented land to Edgar Watson in 1889, but then wanted him out.  She threatened to reveal that he was wanted for murder in Florida. Watson...

The rocky wilderness of the American West turned out to be the richest treasure trove of natural resources in the history of the civilized world....

Although he was born in Fresno, California, in 1875, Maynard Dixon spent much of his art career in Arizona (he died in Tucson in 1946). He made his...

Since its introduction in 1993, Ruger’s Vaquero single-action has ranked among the most popular of six-guns with cowboy action shooters and cowboy...

San Jacinto didn’t end the fighting between Texas and Mexico.  There were some skirmishes after April 1836. In March 1842, Mexican troops briefly...

Josephine Williams was born in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, went to nursing school in Chicago. She graduated from nursing school in 1903 just prior...

What does “waddie” mean? Walt “Waddie” Clark Austin, Texas “Waddie” or “waddy” was originally a derogatory word for a thief or rustler, and the word...

The earliest known reference to football in Arizona is from George Parson’s Tombstone diary, dated January 12, 1882: “Grand foot ball racket this...

By the time Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery across North America from 1804 to 1806, the British, French and Spanish...

Godfrey Gauss witnessed Billy the Kid escape the Lincoln County Jail on April 28, 1881. Gauss said Deputy J.W. Bell died in his arms after Billy...