Stephen W. Kearny played a big role in the conquest and settlement of the West. The career military officer captured New Mexico and established a...

Arizona was the last of the refuge of the drifting lawmen and desperadoes of the Old West.  Its wild country, lack of roads, and proximity to the...

In 1924, legendary actress Lotta Crabtree died, leaving behind an estate of $1.2 million and no known heirs. During a 1926 deposition about one of...

Gunman John Wesley Hardin penned his autobiography, which came out in 1896, a year after he died.  But there were problems--beyond Hardin’s bad...

  Born in 1844, Felix was the second son of Ceran St. Vrain, among the most influential traders in the West. Felix was named after his uncle,...

Where is the West and what defines it? Great questions that historians love to debate and have yet to be definitively answered. A recent released...

Arizona is known for its picturesquely whimsical place names. There is a metropolis that didn’t metrop on the Highway 93 between Wickenburg and...

Wyatt Earp couldn’t get arrested—at least in show business parlance. In real life, Wyatt had been arrested many times: for prostitution in Illinois,...

Patrick McGilligan has updated his 2002 biography Clint: The Life and Legend (OR Books, $25) with new chapters on the Academy Award winning Western...

Deputy US Marshal Frank Canton hated Bee Dunn, and vice versa.  Dunn had pulled some shady deals; Canton wanted to nail him but had failed. Bee...

Before 34-year-old Thomas Moran reached his ultimate destination of Yellowstone in Wyoming Territory in the summer of 1871, he stepped off the Union...

With all of the articles we have done about Wyatt Earp over the years, you might think we could just slap a few anecdotes and photographs on the...