In the Old West, all things were possible. Shakespeare, NM, 1879. Ross Woods got the last breakfast eggs at the Stratford Hotel restaurant. Bean...

On a cold night in March of 1881 outlaws tried to rob the Tombstone to Benson stage. When one of the highwaymen yelled out "Halt!" the shotgun...

A bottle of a mustard­ pickle relish! In his autobiography, noted western surveyer Billy Owen wrote that restaurant tables in his day included “the...

July 25, 1853 Saddling up at 2 a.m.  Harry Love and his fellow California Rangers ride out of their rugged mountain camp and make their way to...

The beautiful Irish song and dance girl Lotta Crabtree is considered to be the first woman to bare her legs and smoke on stage. There's also an...

Labor negotiator? Yep. Both sides asked the Denver socialite (and Titanic survivor) to help out with the Ludlow, CO mine strike in 1914. More than...

Enough that when Indians wanted to find them for a hunt, they'd get up very early in the morning and look over the horizon for a little cloud. There...

After John Slaughter became sheriff of Cochise County in 1887 he issued a warning to the rustler gangs, “get out or get shot.” Most took his advice...

Legend says they tied their horses to it when they tried to rob two banks at once in 1892. That was in Death Alley, where a couple of them were...

Pearl Hart was the “Lady Bandit” who pulled off the last stagecoach heist in the Old West outside Globe, Arizona Territory in 1899. She also was a...

Arguably the zaniest and most overrated train robber in the history of the West was Al Jennings of Oklahoma. He botched every attempt but eventually...

David Thompson was fourteen when he began his life in North America as a clerk’s apprentice with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). He may have been in...