Legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was in more than 50 gunfights.  His first was memorable. It was 1900, and 16-year-old Frank and his younger...

Butch Cassidy’s folk hero image actually exceeded his outlawry.  In 1898, a Chicago newspaper referred to him as the “King of the Bandits,” and the...

The name Erastus Beadle won't mean much to many until it's clear this is THE Beadle of the Beadle Dime Novels. Erastus was a New York publisher of...

The summer of 1881 was not a good one for Tombstone merchant Frank Carleton. In June, his restaurant burned to the ground.  The next month, he lost...

Pancho Villa was admired by some of the finest writers of the 20th century, and a surprising number wrote screenplays about him: Ben Hecht, who,...

Before the coming of the railroads the task of transporting goods across the great southwestern deserts was never an easy one. The terrain was rough...

Crazy Horse was many things—fearless warrior who led a war party to victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June of 1876; admired Oglala...

Auld Lang Syne is a cherished poem by a Scottish poet that is important in the annual holiday of Hogmanay. It's normally celebrated at midnight,...

Arizona’s rugged central mountains, with their brawny mountains and twisting, boulder-choked canyons were a perfect place to lose a mine. Coronado’s...

In the heart of Lubbock, Texas, is the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University. Founded by the Ranchers Heritage Association in...

Captain Harry Love killed California bandit Joaquin Murrieta in 1853; 15 years later, he came to his own hard end. Love was a homeless drunk,...

One of the great myths: Lew Wallace spent most of his time as New Mexico territorial governor writing his epic novel Ben-Hur.  And as a result,...