At first, I think I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, because this doesn’t feel like the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. It’s more...
Mannie Clements Found Out that Dead Men Tell no Tales
The cousin of John Wesley Hardin and brother-in-law of assassin Jim Miller was involved in an El Paso-based organized crime ring. Down on his luck,...
Larcena Pennington
On March 16th, 1860, Larcena Pennington Page was kidnapped by an Apache band near a lumber camp in the Santa Rita Mountains, south of Tucson. When...
Blonde Marie
Soon after the prospector’s pick turned up pay dirt a boom town sprang up overnight. As Mark Twain quipped, “Wherever there was a rumor and a hole...
Whirlwind of the Prairies
As a renowned frontier scout, he was known as “Comanche Jack” and “Wildcat Jack.” The Comanches referred to him as “Whirlwind of the Prairies.” His...
Death in the Mississippi
The end of wars does not always mean the end of death and destruction. The Sultana tragedy proved that. In April 1865, Robert E. Lee had...
The Lynching of Red Yeager
The Montana Vigilantes, led by James Williams (pictured on the left) lynched Red Yeager in December 1863. Supposedly, he had warned an outlaw that...
The Baron of Arizona
Back in the 1880s, a man from Missouri named James Addison Reavis, who was skilled in the art of forgery nearly succeeded in pulling off one of the...
Did John Wesley Hardin get the drop on Wild Bill Hickok?
That’s a legend spread by Hardin in his 1896 autobiography. The event supposedly happened in Abilene, KS in 1871. Hardin biographers Chuck Parsons...
Every Dog Has its Day
Mark Twain’s critical view of the exotic coconut tree, which he described as a “feather-duster struck by lightning,” didn’t keep American pioneers...
One Man’s Dream
When she was a seventh grader, Lori White knew Kenneth “Dobby” Lee as her school bus driver in Alliance, Nebraska. She later found out that he had...
Blood on the Tracks
March 20, 1882 Two days after assassins kill Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp has spent his 34th birthday attending to the details of shipping his younger...