Dan Clifton—alias Dynamite Dick—was a key member of Bill Doolin’s outlaw gang in the 1890s. He was involved in safe cracking, robbery, and rustling....

William “Red” Angus made a name for himself during Wyoming’s Johnson County War. He ran a liquor store in Buffalo when he was elected county sheriff...

Not much is known about the Oklahoma outlaw named Dan Clifton. Where and when was he born? How did he become an outlaw? And where did he get the...

On July 17, 1870, in Hays City at Paddy Welch’s saloon a couple of drunken troopers from Custer’s 7th Cavalry jumped Hickok, who was back in Hays...

Someone asked me the other day if famed Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest brilliant or slightly insane. For those of you who are not...

As the railroads expanded throughout the West in the 1880s it opened new opportunities for the outlaws. The 1890s saw an epidemic of train robberies...

Dave Updyke was a livery stable owner in Boise City, ID (photo). He was respected enough to get elected the first Ada County sheriff in 1864—but...