Riding on the Butterfield Overland Mail during the 1850s could be a harrowing experience. Passengers bumped their heads on the roof as the coached...

Four outlaws stepped off the train. They were ready for a showdown, but High Noon was decades away. The lazy squeak of a distant windmill a reminder...

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...

Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives graduated from West Point in 1852 and the following year he was assigned to the storied Army  Corps of...

George Scarborough was a tough and deadly lawman—until he ran into members of the Wild Bunch. He and a compatriot were trailing rustlers in...

Many people dream of leaving the hustle and bustle of everyday life, moving off the grid and traveling in a style and pace not seen along American...

The arrival of camels in the American Southwest in the 1850s failed to bring a chorus of cheers from the packers and muleskinners. They should have...

One of the longest posse chases in Arizona history came after the attempted robbery of the Benson Stage on March 15, 1881, when a large posse,...

Some folks just disappeared after their brush with fame.  Take Wayne Brazel (center in photo). He was tried and acquitted for the 1908 murder of Pat...

Joseph Meek and Robert Newell knew the landscape of the West by 1840, since both had been working beaver streams throughout the Rockies and beyond...

Sixty years ago the award-winning Rogers and Hammerstein Broadway musical Oklahoma! was being finalized by Magna Theatre Corporation for theatrical...

Millions of Americans—including our own Bob Boze Bell—got their college education from “land grant colleges” like the University of Arizona in...