In Westerns when a bad guy is shot, he invariably dies a clean death, i.e. quickly and neatly. But in real life mortally wounded outlaws could...

Four or five times a year, artist Ed Ruscha would drive from LA to his parent’s home in Oklahoma. In 1962, Ruscha photographed a series of gas...

Doc Holliday Im Your Huckleberry In the classic Western movie “Tombstone” (1993) Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday, says to Johnny Ringo, “I’m your...

Every summer, in July and August, we get the big dust storms that freak out everybody who isn’t from Arizona. And, by the way, we never called them...

Escaping Tucson on foot and with a posse soon to be on their trail, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and others hoof it 11 miles east on the railroad...

August 5, 1878 The Regulators are riding, 19 strong, as they come down through the canyon leading to the Mescalero Agency, perhaps looking for more...

In 1857 Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives commanded an expedition to explore the Colorado River. After wrecking their 54-foot paddlewheel steamboat,...

He was born in Philadelphia as Alonzo Megarge III in 1883. Inspired by a Buffalo Bill Cody performance, Alonzo moved to Arizona at age 13 and sought...

When the James-Younger Gang attempted to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, on September 7, 1876, the outlaws ran into a hornet’s...

Chambermaid May Killeen was a beautiful woman. She had many suitors, including Tombstone’s most colorful bachelor, Buckskin Frank Leslie....

Wyatt Earp had no luck selling his version of the Tombstone events during his lifetime. But shortly after his death in 1929, gangster movies became...