The Old West frontier town was dirty, dusty, smelly and often dangerously unhealthy. In those early days most people did not understand or...

January 11, 1886 Captain Emmet Crawford is on the brink of victory. Yesterday, his punitive raiding party of three officers, one medic, one...

This librarian up in Idaho is giving C.J. Box the evil eye. Murder is in this dame’s heart, and Box figures he’s about to take that big sleep. A...

“I felt like crying, for the sacred hoop was broken and scattered. The life of the people was in the hoop, and what are many little lives if the...

“In the bag,” he said as he opened it and removed two objects, “is the broken shell of the iron kettle, a pebble from the butte, and a piece of the...

With drawn six-guns, Tiburcio Vasquez rode rampant across early California to become one of the Golden State’s most colorful desperados. Vasquez was...

The Davy Crockett of American mythology was, as anyone who grew up in the 1950s watching Walt Disney’s TV show could tell you, born on a mountaintop...

“In all the top 10 lists of great cowboy actors, he’s never there, and it drives me crazy,” says Peter Ford of his father, Glenn. The fact is, he’s...

During its July 1872 term, the Missouri Supreme Court announced what appeared to be an innocuous opinion concerning $100. The opinion started: “Suit...

“Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee....” Mountaintop? You won’t find a mountaintop here. For decades I’ve been singing that song, and now I find out...

Iconic Route 66 is more than a mere highway that connects a metropolis on the shore of Lake Michigan with a metropolis on the Pacific Coast. It is...

Geronimo. It is a warrior name for the ages—standing comfortably alongside the likes of Achilles, Leonidas, Genghis Khan, Patton and Rommel in its...