The so-called Al Spencer Gang pulled off the last train holdup in OK.  It was early in the morning of August 21, 1923 when the Katy Limited pulled...

In 1895, when Vera McGinnis was only three years old, she jumped an irrigation canal on a burro named Croppie, and she was off to the races,...

On September 8, 1886, the Fourth Cavalry Regimental Band was on hand when Geronimo and the last free Apaches were marched to Bowie Station to be...

Ray Simpson had a dream—somebody tried to vandalize his hardware store in Delta, CO, and he had to shoot the intruder.  That dream caused Simpson to...

Most Old West towns grew up helter-skelter around mines or along cattle trails. But Great Falls, named for a spectacular series of waterfalls...

In February, 1901, Butch Cassidy, Harry “Sundance” Longabaugh and Ethel Place headed for South America after a brief stay in New York City where...

In 1903, female members of the Hualapai tribe wore their hair heavily banged, while the rest of their hair framed their face to cover their cheeks...

In its heyday Tombstone was never wanting for good attorneys and none was more talented than the irrepressible Allen English. He arrived in...

November 17, 1849. Kit Carson led an army detachment to a Jicarilla Apache camp, trying to rescue captive Ann White. Most of the Indians got...

On the night of December 28, 1881, City Marshal Virgil Earp was ambushed and hit with buckshot crossing the intersection of Fifth and Allen Streets...

She might look like just a nice, gray-haired grandma, but Donaldina Cameron (shown in picture, front row, third from the left) was known as...

No, Bob, Cole and Jim Younger did not own a condo here at Terra Springs. Oh, the boys lived here, all right—till Bob’s death in 1889 and Cole and...