In the movie Tombstone, the Cowboys are identified by the red sashes they wear around their waists.  That never happened (although it made for a...

Lon and Ed Maxwell were small time criminals, petty robbers and horse thieves in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.  And then it turned really ugly....

Fred Waite got out of the Lincoln County War alive—and managed to turn his life around. In 1878, Waite joined Billy the Kid and the Regulators.  He...

Talk about a rare photo.  Billy the Kid’s friend Charlie Bowdre carried in his pocket a photo of his wife Manuela and him.  That’s where it was on...

William Wilson killed Robert Casey (in photo) in August 1875 in Lincoln, NM in an incident that preceded the power war that was about to come. ...

Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, served in Congress, fought Indians and died a legend at the...

Jesse James had his own publicity agent—John Newman Edwards. A Confederate veteran, Edwards became a newspaperman after the war, starting the Kansas...

Marshall Ashmun Upson—“Ash”—was an itinerant journalist (and heavy drinker) in the years after the Civil War.  By 1877, he was a small rancher and...