During the 1920s Matt Kimes began his outlaw career as a petty thief and quickly moved up to bank robbery. His first one was in Depew, Oklahoma on...

Gladys Johnson Sims and ex-husband Ed Sims were in the middle of a Texas-sized custody battle over their two daughters.  They both came to Snyder,...

Bill Standifer and Pink Higgins were both from Lampasas, TX. Both were noted gunmen in their 50s—and they didn’t have much use for one another. That...

On September 3, 1875—the day six men were hanged in Fort Smith, Arkansas—Isaac Parker earned his nickname, “Hanging Judge.” Parker had not been on...

You’ve heard of Calamity Jane, Ethel “Etta” Place and Belle Starr. But what about Flora Quick? This mysterious horse thief said to have ridden with...

Any Old West history enthusiast who fancies learning about famed gunfighter James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok must have heard of Joseph G. Rosa....

Competition between madams was especially keen in the wild and wicked west Texas town of El Paso where Redheaded Etta “Grasshopper” Clark and “Big...

Actress Drew Barrymore’s great grandfather has an Old West tie.  Maurice Barrymore led a theater troupe into Marshall, TX in 1879.  He and two...

In December 1875, Texas Ranger James Gillett took a trip to Austin, Texas, in search of a rifle with greater firepower than his .50-70 Sharps...

Twenty-year-old Eva Dugan took the alias Claw-Finger Kitty while she was working as a prostitute during the Alaska Gold Rush and some thirty years...

One of the Doc Holliday legends is that he killed some blacks who were swimming in a family pond in Georgia. The truth, according to Doc’s cousin...

Charles F. Lummis was two years old when he experienced his first loss—the death of his mother from consumption on April 24, 1861, at their seaside...