Some folks just disappeared after their brush with fame.  Take Wayne Brazel (center in photo). He was tried and acquitted for the 1908 murder of Pat...

The illustrations are striking—mountain man/scout/pioneer Kit Carson with a beautiful horse, ready to take on the toughest trails the West can...

They called her the Denton Mare, a two-year-old gray named Jennie that had been bred in north Texas.  Sam Bass saw that she was speedy and bought...

General Edward Canby—a career army man--commanded the military in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1870s.  One duty: to bring the Modoc tribe to...

Cayuse Chief Tiloukaikt led several warriors in killing 13 people at Oregon’s Whitman mission on November 29, 1847.  The Indians blamed the whites...

On November 29, 1864, Colorado militia killed dozens of Cheyenne and Arapaho—many women, children and elderly--in what’s known as the Sand Creek...

Galen Clark was widowed, broke, depressed and suffering from TB when he moved to the mountains of California in 1853. Doctors gave him six months to...

Emmett Dalton was in trouble, in a Coffeyville, KS doctor’s office with more than 20 wounds after his gang attempted to rob two banks on October 5,...

Pioneer Jack Swilling should be remembered for his many contributions to Arizona—but his legacy is clouded by a robbery charge.Born John W. Swilling...