Scottsdale’s Museum of the West has been a long time coming. Our friend Abe Hays has been championing the idea of a Western museum in the Arizona...

From our perspective today it's hard to believe that Hollywood did not film the Wyatt Earp in Tombstone story until the 1930s! There had been movies...

In 1924, legendary actress Lotta Crabtree died, leaving behind an estate of $1.2 million and no known heirs. During a 1926 deposition about one of...

Wyatt Earp couldn’t get arrested—at least in show business parlance. In real life, Wyatt had been arrested many times: for prostitution in Illinois,...

With all of the articles we have done about Wyatt Earp over the years, you might think we could just slap a few anecdotes and photographs on the...

Four outlaws stepped off the train. They were ready for a showdown, but High Noon was decades away. The lazy squeak of a distant windmill a reminder...

With all of the articles we have done about Wyatt Earp over the years, you might think we could just slap a few anecdotes and photographs on the...

One of the longest posse chases in Arizona history came after the attempted robbery of the Benson Stage on March 15, 1881, when a large posse,...

In the classic Western movie Tombstone (1993) Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday, says to Johnny Ringo, “I’m your Huckleberry, that’s just my game.” Did...

On February 25, 1881, after an earlier altercation inside, faro dealer Luke Short, shot and killed fellow gambler Charley Storms outside the ...

February 25, 1881 Charley Storms has been playing faro since last night...and losing. As an Arizona morning dawns, a broke and drunk Storms takes...