Albert Afraid of Hawk was a 20-year-old Sioux who was part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show when he died in Danbury, CT in 1900.  He was buried in...

The Northern Paiute medicine man Wovoka healed people and brought rain to parched lands.  People listened to his prediction that 1891 would bring...

Texas Ranger James Coryell and two compatriots headed out from Fort Milam (near Waco) on May 27, 1837 and found a bee tree about a mile away.  They...

Outlaw Clell Miller was killed in the infamous James-Younger Gang robbery at Northfield, MN on September 7, 1876.  What happened to his body is...

The great detective said that he and six associates kidnapped outlaw John Reno from a Seymour, IN train depot in November 1867.  The lawmen pulled...

December 20, 1873.  The Horrell brothers wanted revenge for the killing of their brother Ben.  So they and some 20 others attacked a Mexican wedding...

Willis Newton thought robbing a train would be easier than picking cotton.  So he and a pal called Red stuck up the Southern Pacific just outside...

The cousin of John Wesley Hardin and brother-in-law of assassin Jim Miller was involved in an El Paso-based organized crime ring.  Down on his luck,...

The end of wars does not always mean the end of death and destruction. The Sultana tragedy proved that. In April 1865, Robert E. Lee had...

The Montana Vigilantes, led by James Williams (pictured on the left) lynched Red Yeager in December 1863.  Supposedly, he had warned an outlaw that...

That’s a legend spread by Hardin in his 1896 autobiography. The event supposedly happened in Abilene, KS in 1871. Hardin biographers Chuck Parsons...