Western emigrants didn't feel they had “crossed the Rockies” until they'd crossed the Continental Divide. To do that, the westward bound wagons had...

One of those post-Indian Wars gunfights, almost lost in history occurred in northern Arizona on November 11th, 1899, long after the Indian Wars had...

After a few days at the beach, travelers to San Diego should set aside a day to tour the city in search of its Old West heritage. The first stop for...

The Outlaw Trail wasn’t really one specific trail, but a series of hideouts that ran from Montana through Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico,...

  In November 1864, Medicine Woman Later and her husband, Southern Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle, set up their lodge amongst a large encampment...

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...