Just how good were the “good ol days?” Folks on the western frontier led a hardscrabble life. They were wan with fever, gaunt, scrawny and peaked....

Dan Tipton knew a moment of fame, riding with Wyatt Earp on the so-called Vendetta Ride, hunting down the killers of Morgan Earp. Later on, he met...

Was laundry day! Sometimes it was Mondays, but more than not, Wednesdays. First, women had to make the lye soap; then they had to haul water,...

When the veterans came home from the battlefields and their postings far from home 150 years ago, the toll of the war was felt from the hamlets of...

Back in 1879, folks in Las Vegas, New Mexico found a new use for the windmill in the town plaza.  And why not—the well had gone dry a couple of...

Long before Matt Dillon, Chester and Miss Kitty wrapped their hands around a warm cup, coffee was a staple on the frontier.  In 1849 while surveying...

On May, 15, 2015, fifty years after the last guest stayed at the Historic Sheridan Inn of Sheridan, Wyoming, the famous hotel will reopen for guests...

It wasn't Linda Ronstadt, although the Tucson, Arizona singer was a superstar until her retirement in 2011—11 Grammy Awards, 3 American Music...

Ever since 1952, when Bob Mullin and Phil Rasch found the marriage record of William Antrim and the Kid’s mother, Catherine McCarty, the truth about...

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...