Cullen Baker was a hardcase, a Confederate soldier who kept fighting after the Civil War ended.  He and his gang pulled a number of robberies in...

An Old West quiz: if you were a cowboy and had “licks” and “slicks,” what were you doing? You were on a cattle roundup. Thanks to the Federal...

February 18, 1878 Late afternoon light tips the tops of the foothills leading down into New Mexico Territory’s Ruidoso Valley. The Tunstall party...

Unscrupulous prospectors trying to peddle their claims for profit upgraded their dubious mining properties in a “manner contrary to nature” by a...

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...