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...

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...