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...

I love driving the back roads of America and a good guidebook always makes the trip better when you get off the Interstate down a good blue highway...

Cayuse Chief Tiloukaikt led several warriors in killing 13 people at Oregon’s Whitman mission on November 29, 1847.  The Indians blamed the whites...

Chalkley McArtor “Chalk” Beeson, the last of seven kids from Quaker parents Samuel and Martha, was born in Salem, Ohio, on April 24, 1848. The...

An outlaw trail ranged all the way from Canada to Mexico and Butch Cassidy knew the way like the back of his hand. He wasn’t wanted in a number of...

Today the Statue of Liberty stands as a cherished American symbol and a beloved lady. But it wasn't always like that. Here was much controversy...

I’ve traveled Interstate 8 between Phoenix and San Diego dozens of times and every time I reach the crest of the mountains just west of Ocotillo,...

Who were the men said to “ride like a Mexican, track like a Comanche, shoot like a Kentuckian, and fight like the devil?” A Texas Ranger, of course....

The folk bandit was perceived as one battling against the moneyed interests and they were popular among the common folks. It was said they robbed...