Legend says they tied their horses to it when they tried to rob two banks at once in 1892. That was in Death Alley, where a couple of them were...
If you visit Las Vegas, New Mexico—and you should, considering all the Old West history that’s still alive there—head to the park blooming in the...
The year 1875 was a watershed for the war chief known as Quanah. Before that time, his Quahadi Comanches were one of the fiercest, toughest and...
The last Old West-style train robbery in Texas was strange. It started off as a joke and ended up with a trip to mom’s house. In his mid-20s, Willis...
Folks in the Pacific Northwest called Charles Hopkins the “Tattooed Bandit” or “True Love Bandit.” Others knew him as the second Harry Tracy—as if...
Arkansas native Max Aronson was in New Jersey in 1903, trying to angle his way into movie stardom. Director Edwin S. Porter asked the 23 year old...
On January 1, 1889, the Northern Paiute medicine man Wovoka was recovering after nearly dying from scarlet fever. As a total solar eclipse darkened...
Face it—nothing says “Old West” quite like a good, old-fashioned, American train robbery. The image is burned in our brains: a gang of masked men...
True West asked me to track down Bigfoot. Huh? You mean the giant, hairy beast that they do the television documentaries about? What’s next—ancient...
A shoot-out for the ages, a bloody battle that left four gamblers dead and another severely wounded, was trumpeted in newspapers around the U.S. and...
A sterling reputation won’t block a lead bullet. Famed Old West lawman Bill Tilghman learned that lesson firsthand, in an ugly, smelly, Oklahoma oil...
Reportedly born around 1886, Rafael “Red” López was a bad man. He killed six men—including five law officers—in late 1913 near Bingham, Utah. Then...