James Dolan was a 25-year-old hothead when he got in trouble in Lincoln County, NM in 1873. He got into a tiff with Captain James Randlett, an...
If there was a winner in New Mexico’s Lincoln County War, it may have been Susan McSween. The widow of Alexander McSween used some gift cattle and a...
John Denson was a kinsman to both John Wesley Hardin and Jim Miller. And he apparently helped the latter with some of his illegal activities. But...
Shorty Anderson had a tale to tell. On August 19, 1895, he was in El Paso’s Acme Saloon. And he watched as lawman John Selman walked and gunned...
During the Punitive Expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917, Mexicans generally refused to help American troops, who they viewed as invaders. But...
General John Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917. American troops sought for Pancho Villa and his men after they had...
May 1916. Lieutenant George Patton led a group of 10 soldiers on a raid of a Mexican ranch, looking for Pancho Villa aide Julio Cardenas. It...
Six Mile, KS was a hotspot on the stage run from Jefferson City to St. Joseph. The tavern, built a decade before the Civil War, was the...
George McJunkin was a top hand, running some of the largest cattle outfits in New Mexico and Texas during the post-Civil War years. He had a run-in...
Western pioneer Jesse Chisholm is best known for the Texas to Kansas cattle trail that bears his name. And that’s ironic: Jesse never drove...
In the summer of 1892, the federal government sent Buffalo Soldiers to serve as a buffer between the two sides in Wyoming’s Johnson County...
Charles Young had a distinguished career of service to his country. Born in 1864, in 1889 he became the third Black to graduate from West Point. A...