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,...

Two ranchers, Corydon Cooley and Marion Clark, decided the valley they lived in wasn’t big enough for the both of them. They played a card game to...

At the annual Historical Society of New Mexico Conference in Albuquerque on May 9, Max Evans will receive the 2015 Edgar Lee Hewett Award in honor...

Not all shootists were expert marksmen. In Dodge City, one night in 1880, a bunch of Texas drovers tangled in Sherman's Saloon. Hundreds of shots...

                  The name is very familiar, but what this teenaged girl did—and what she meant to the...

A few surprising notes on Hanging Judge Isaac Parker, who was the law for the Western District of Arkansas out of Ft. Smith. He opposed the death...

September 7, 1893 Not many folks are out and about on this stifling hot Thursday morning in Delta, Colorado. At 10:15 a.m., fifteen minutes after...

Arizona pioneer Jack Swilling was a founder of both Prescott and Phoenix—and an accused stage robber. In 1878, Jack and two friends were mistaken...

As in the Cheyenne Club—the private cattlemen's club in Wyoming Territory that was “over the top” in every way. It sat like a beacon on Seventeenth...