In 1862 John Gilleland, a dentist and sometimes mechanic from Georgia, had a genius idea. If one cannon could wreak havoc upon the enemy, why not...

One of the most important military roads during the Apache Wars was the General Crook Trail along the Mogollon Rim Camp Verde to Fort Apache. The...

Andrew Carnegie, 1835 to 1919, gave away over $350 million during his lifetime. One of his passions was free public libraries, and he's credited...

On February 25, 1881, after an earlier altercation inside, faro dealer Luke Short, shot and killed fellow gambler Charley Storms outside the ...

Seventy years ago, the McDonald-Schmidt Ranch House at the White Sands Missile Range (adjacent to the White Sands National Monument) in Socorro...

By the early 1900s, the law was closing in and Butch Cassidy was beginning to feel the pressure. The cattle industry was big in Argentina and with...

They called her the Denton Mare, a two-year-old gray named Jennie that had been bred in north Texas.  Sam Bass saw that she was speedy and bought...

                    Back in the 1980s, LIFE magazine quoted an American Automobile Association...

Writers sometimes discover their muse on their own, but sometimes their muse finds them. Arizona artist-writer Pat Parish would probably tell you...

General Edward Canby—a career army man--commanded the military in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1870s.  One duty: to bring the Modoc tribe to...

Some things you might not know about Hollywood Shooting Star Johnny Mack Brown. The Alabama “artful dodger” was an All-American halfback at Alabama...

Helen Hunt Jackson was a young poet who'd grown up in New England the night in 1879 when she went to Fanueil Hall to hear an Omaha Chief and his...