Tradition is more than just a buzzword out Wickenburg way. Although it’s only an hour away from the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the historic...
The Whitman Massacre
The mother of women's migration West was a beautiful, golden-haired missionary with a lovely soprano voice, but a heart that could never learn to...
How many of the regular cast of Gunsmoke are still alive today?
How many of the regular cast of Gunsmoke are still alive today? Dan Winrow Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sadly, most of those stars are gone. One died...
Trailblazing History
Historian and cartographer Pieter S. Burggraaf has just published a ground breaking history of early Arizona: The Walker Party—The Revised Story:...
Bat Masterson, Foreigner and Lawman
Bat Masterson is one of the most famous lawmen in the Old West. But he was also a serial lawbreaker. Bat was born in Canada in 1853 and never...
A Lion in Arizona’s Wild Rim Country
In September, 1927, MGM Studios decided to send their new mascot, a 400-lb. African Lion, on a goodwill trip by airplane to New York City. The...
Do any accounts exist of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains or Indian villages in the Old West?
Do any accounts exist of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains or Indian villages in the Old West? Roger Tignor Independence, Missouri The...
A Madam’s Life Story
Colorado historian Tracy Beach has recently published the biography of one of Colorado’s most colorful and entrepreneurial Red Light District...
Lawman-Author Monty McCord Shoots Straight on Best Books
Retired police lieutenant Monty McCord grew up riding horses and watching Westerns in Hastings, Nebraska. A native of the Cornhusker State, McCord...
Wanda the Wonderful
Carolyn McCartney’s documentary about her grandmother, sharpshooter Wanda Savage, is a mind-boggling pleasure. Part Chickasaw and born to a family...
Wall of Flame
Working deep in the earth as a miner is a job with many hazards, including poison gases, explosions, collapses, floods and fires to name a...
The Twice-Hanged, Headless Hooch
On April 19, 1908 in Skidoo, California, a bartender named Joe “Hooch” Simpson gunned down the town banker, Jim Arnold and robbed him of $20. Three...