Langford Peel and John Bull (in illustration, in a fake holdup of Mark Twain) ran con games throughout the West.  The association ended on July 22,...

When the final episode of A&E’s Longmire, season three, came to a close, audiences were left with some tantalizing questions: Now that Walt...

Biddy Mason walked from Mississippi to California behind her slave master's wagon train, herding cattle, cooking meals and caring for her three...

The writers came to Wyatt Earp. They wanted his story; they wanted to know all about that street fight in Tombstone, Arizona, and the Vendetta Ride...

A century  ago, World War I was entering its second year of slaughter with massive casualties recorded on the Western and Eastern fronts of Europe,...

Juan Soto was a killer and bandit in California in the 1860s and ‘70s—until he met lawman Harry Morse. Morse tracked Soto and his gang to an adobe...

Galen Clark was, for want of a better term, a loser. Yet all of his trials and tribulations ended up giving this country a great natural treasure:...

As early as the 1870s Arizonans began pushing for statehood. Haunted by their notorious past, of cattle rustlers, Indian wars, feuds in places with...

Unlike in the movies (where actors get paid to die on screen), being on the wrong end of a shoot-out was a sad day in the Old West. Bad shots,...

A man in his middle 30s sits in a pushchair, its wheels and his lap covered by a blanket. He is emaciated. His neck is wrapped to conceal infected...