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...

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...

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...

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 Montana Vigilantes, led by James Williams (pictured on the left) lynched Red Yeager in December 1863.  Supposedly, he had warned an outlaw that...

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...

That’s a legend spread by Hardin in his 1896 autobiography. The event supposedly happened in Abilene, KS in 1871. Hardin biographers Chuck Parsons...

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...

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...

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...

Can you imagine walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery as they saw the Pacific Coast for the first time? Fighting...

“There was one class of officers who were entitled to all the praise they received and much more besides, and that class was the surgeons, who never...