How many billions have been spent over the years searching for a cure for one of the top killers? How many careers have been launched seeking an...

That's one of the legacies of Susan “Doc Suzy” Anderson, one of the first female doctors in the west. She found it hard to practice her profession...

Issac C. Parker was known as the “Hanging Judge.” He ruled the Western District of Arkansas court between 1875 and 1896, and he earned his nickname....

In the old west, you didn't have an Ace hidden in your poker hand when you had an “ace in the hole.” What you had was a hidden pistol concealed in a...

That historical honor goes to U.S. Marshall Albert Lowe of Nome, Alaska in the late 1890s, who reportedly slapped an intoxicated saloon keeper and...

Since we know the end of this story, we can understand. Wild Bill Hickok long worried his notoriety would make him an attractive target for an...

They say that “Dame Nature” never made a bad complexion, but there's a billion-dollar industry to disagree. And even in the old west, where they...

Everyone knows that Billy the Kid went by several names—Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, William Bonney—but who was Phoebe Anne Mozee? Who was Josiah...

Bethenia Owens-Adair was a woman who knew her mind. She was the first female doctor in the West, and was also a determined lobbyist for the Women's...

Many know the stories of how young, white woman from the East Coast traveled West to marry men who paid their train tickets—looking for a new life...

The story of the Mormon Handcarts is normally told as a tragedy. How two parties of foreign converts were caught in the winter storms between Iowa...