A century before the extreme drought issues in the West, Arizona was experiencing one of its wettest springs in 1915. Just a month past four years...

Bat Masterson met his maker on October 25, 1921—not in a gunfight, but at a desk. The 67-year-old ex-lawman was a columnist for the New York Morning...

Some train robbers never seem to get their outlaw act together. A couple of Cochise County cowboys named Joe George and Grant Wheeler tried to rob a...

The Victor, Colorado Union Hall was dedicated in March 1901.  It became the site of a pitched shoot-out on June 7, 1904. Western Federation of...

This was borne out in the spring of 1879 in the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City when a hot-tempered buffalo hunter named Levi Richardson and a...

While many collectors of baseball cards have heard of the holy grail of cards, the T206 Hones Wagner card, issued by American Tobacco Company...

As every good daughter and son remembered their mother on May 10, it's good to recall that determined American women are responsible for both...

Pancho Villa is commonly held as one of Mexico's fiercest fighters. However, unlike the Colt army revolvers preferred by many "shootists" at the...

May 5, 1865.  More than a dozen men derail a train near North Bend, Ohio, just northwest of Cincinnati.  They rob the passengers and then break open...

Texan Erwin Evans Smith is regarded as one of the greatest photographers of the day-to-day life of the cowboy in the American Southwest. Smith...

Independent filmmaker Cameron Trejo and historian Heidi Osselaer recently debuted the documentary, Power’s War, at a series of screenings ,including...

Harry Longabaugh’s career as a train robber began less than gloriously when on Sunday, November 29th, 1892, he and two other unemployed cowboys,...