August 24, 1877 A wild picnic is in progress just outside the city limits of Denver, Colorado. Notorious brothel owner Mattie Silks is among the...

Fred Waite got out of the Lincoln County War alive—and managed to turn his life around. In 1878, Waite joined Billy the Kid and the Regulators.  He...

After their capture at Hanska Slough following the ill-fated Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery, Cole, Bob and Jim Younger thought they'd be hung...

That historical honor goes to U.S. Marshall Albert Lowe of Nome, Alaska in the late 1890s, who reportedly slapped an intoxicated saloon keeper and...

The Port of Jefferson’s first steamboat captain opened Texas’s second oldest, continuously operating hotel, the Excelsior. William Perry, a...

Talk about a rare photo.  Billy the Kid’s friend Charlie Bowdre carried in his pocket a photo of his wife Manuela and him.  That’s where it was on...

Jim Hoy, Emporia State University’s director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, is a native of the Kansas Flint Hills. Recently retired from...

He was standing there, as was his horse, Warrior, but both were invisible between the flashes. Shrieking winds cut the rolling grasslands into...

Men who wore the badge on the frontier often walked an ill-defined line between lawmen and outlaw. Oklahoma lawman Bob Dalton is a good example of a...

Were Indian War soldiers ordered to crush empty shell casings so Indians could not reload them? Chuck Doire Healdsburg, California Commanders did...

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 killed Robert Casey (in photo) in August 1875 in Lincoln, NM in an incident that preceded the power war that was about to come. ...