Embarking by boat from San Francisco in 1874, Martha Summerhayes joined her army husband as he headed to far-off Arizona. Arriving in Yuma they met...

June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache scouts under his command, ride single file into the...

The U.S.-Mexico border has long been plagued by outlaws and bandidos from both sides of the line. Some of the most infamous to ply the no man’s land...

He was a freighter, a scout, a gambler, a lawman and an actor (a bad one by his own admission). His real name was James, but someone called him...

In March of 1882, Wyatt Earp and a hand-picked posse, including Doc Holliday, scoured the hills of Cochise County looking for cowboys who had a hand...

There are two theories on how African-American troops stationed in nineteenth century Arizona became known as “Buffalo Soldiers.” Native Americans...

Trading posts began appearing on Arizona Indian reservations in the early 1870s. These isolated stores provided food and other goods in exchange for...

She was beautiful, or, she was a toothless hag. She had coal-black hair, or, she had a shock of red hair. She was from Sonora, Mexico, or France....

Legendary outlaw Curly Bill Brocius had a perverse sense of humor. He once broke into a dance on the San Pedro and at gunpoint forced everyone to...

Most of us are familiar with the saying, “Ay Chihuahua!” which is the Spanish equivalent of “Yikes!” The entire saying is, “Ay Chihuahua, cuantos...

In 1835, a large, obnoxious, French-Canadian trapper named Joseph Chouinard went looking for Americans to bully at the annual trapper’s rendezvous...