Like most Texas cattlemen, John Pinckney Calhoun Higgins, was mighty handy with a gun and was not a man to trifle with. He’s not exactly a household...

Governor John St. John, with the backing of the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union, forced the legislature to pass a constitutional...

Butch Cassidy was tired of the outlaw trail.  So in 1899, he tried to cut a deal to gain his freedom. The details are cloudy, but it appears that he...

On May 23, 2015, over 1,000 fans, friends, family, honorary guests and dignitaries, from as far away as Australia, Ireland and France, gathered in...

In October 1849, a trader named James White, his wife Ann and their infant daughter were traveling on the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico when they...

What...is...history?” asked French Revolution leader Napoléon Bonaparte. “A fable agreed upon.” He went on to state, “...you will not find two...

The first “home sweet home” for many early pioneers was a soddie—a house built from two-feet-thick “bricks of earth,” cut from the prairie sod The...

Bitter Creek Newcomb and Charley Pierce learned the hard way about being careful where they lay their heads. On May 2, 1895, the Doolin Gang members...

Charles Hopkins is a forgotten name nowadays, but in early 1914 he was known far and wide in the Pacific Northwest. He’d just done a four year stint...

A century or so ago, railroad boosters and marketers discovered Arizona’s signature cactus, the saguaro, as the perfect symbol of the Southwest. The...

She’s been referred to as the Goddess of Victory, Statue of Justice, and Madame de Vaunte but Arizonans prefer to call her Winged Victory because of...

That was Ann Eliza Webb, the 19th wife of Brigham Young. She did the unthinkable and divorcing the head of the Mormon Church—a “living prophet” who...