How was Morgan Earp killed? Ron Lervold Chandler, Arizona In Tombstone, Arizona, on March 18, 1882, an assassin fired a rifle through the back door...

Bethenia Owens-Adair was a woman who knew her mind. She was the first female doctor in the West, and was also a determined lobbyist for the Women's...

Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, served in Congress, fought Indians and died a legend at the...

Although Dodge City, the bibulous "Babylon of the Plains" was well-known for its wicked ways it also attracted a number of preachers who welcomed...

Many know the stories of how young, white woman from the East Coast traveled West to marry men who paid their train tickets—looking for a new life...

In 1880, young Juan Oliveras of Tucson was caught in an amorous act with his mother-in-law by her husband who chased his son-in-law down and killed...

If you’ve been reading my last couple posts, you know that Nitroglycerin was dangerous as hell. Whether it was blowing open a safe or the simple act...

History can sometimes seem a mishmash of facts, folklore and half-forgotten fables, held together by little more than spit and baling wire. Take...

The railroad arrived in what became Fairbank in 1881. It was the closest rail link to the boom town of Tombstone, at the time one of the largest...

Screenwriter and author Lee Martin’s latest novel, The Grant Conspiracy: Wake of the Civil War is ready-made for adaptation for the silver-screen or...

The story of the Mormon Handcarts is normally told as a tragedy. How two parties of foreign converts were caught in the winter storms between Iowa...

Jesse James had his own publicity agent—John Newman Edwards. A Confederate veteran, Edwards became a newspaperman after the war, starting the Kansas...