William Whitney Brazelton is well known for his stagecoach holdups and unorthodox choice of armaments. What many don’t know, is that “Brazen Bill”...

How was Wild Bill Hickok killed? James Patrick Gaines Orangevale, California Shortly past noon on August 2, 1876, James “Wild Bill” Hickok walked...

Contention City played a major role in the growth of southern Arizona at a time when the territory needed it most. An accidental stumble started it...

It's generally assumed that Indians were always portrayed in early movies as the heavy. When the Whites won it was a battle and when the Indian’s...

After Johnny Slaughter, murdered on March 25, 1877, became the first stage driver killed along the Deadwood to Cheyenne Trail, the Cheyenne and...

Lon and Ed Maxwell were small time criminals, petty robbers and horse thieves in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.  And then it turned really ugly....

Issac C. Parker was known as the “Hanging Judge.” He ruled the Western District of Arkansas court between 1875 and 1896, and he earned his nickname....

Scout’s Rest Ranch, known today as Buffalo Bill State Historical Park in North Platte, Nebraska, might seem like an odd place to start a road trip...

Billy Hutchinson, who opened the Bird Cage on December 23rd, 1881, proved up on the old adage, once an entertainer always an entertainer. One night...

In the old west, you didn't have an Ace hidden in your poker hand when you had an “ace in the hole.” What you had was a hidden pistol concealed in a...

Jerome Tuccille’s book titled The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish American War (Chicago Review Press, $26.95)...

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...