In 1864, as the Civil War ground toward its bloody finish, the West was aflame in widespread Indian conflicts of unimaginable violence and...

Albert Afraid of Hawk was a 20-year-old Sioux who was part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show when he died in Danbury, CT in 1900.  He was buried in...

Captured by Sonoran mercenaries near Esqueda, Sonora, Mexico (south of present-day Douglas, Arizona), in the mid-1860s, Dilcthe was sold into...

With the end of the Civil War sesquicentennial this April, publishers have kept bookstore shelves heavy with dozens of new volumes on the conflict,...

As the Civil War broke out in 1861, you could draw a line in the East to separate the North from the South. You couldn't do that in the West, where...

March 28, 1884:  Or was it March 8? Sources conflict. Five bank robbers convicted of murdering four Bisbee citizens, including a pregnant woman, are...

The Northern Paiute medicine man Wovoka healed people and brought rain to parched lands.  People listened to his prediction that 1891 would bring...

On June 1, 1903, three men who knew Tom Horn rode together in the parade at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming. Horn had been found guilty of...

                  Her name isn't real and neither are most of the folklore images of her. Calamity...

If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.” A few years ago the late author Jack Koblas told me a poignant...

More than 1,600 miles from Hollywood, California, in Winterset, Iowa, is the humble home of Clyde and Mary Morrison, who welcomed their first son...

Was Steve McQueen channeling Tom Mix when he filmed Junior Bonner in Prescott in 1971? We’ll never know, but we do know this: Tom Mix was the real...