Charlie Utter (right in photo) is best known as a sidekick to Wild Bill Hickok, but he had quite the life beyond that. Born in Niagara Falls, NY in...

Charlie Utter (right in photo) is best known as a sidekick to Wild Bill Hickok, but he had quite the life beyond that. Born in Niagara Falls, NY in...
Charley Parkhurst moved from New Hampshire to California during the 1849 Gold Rush. Once there, Charley became a stage driver—one of the best in the...
Johnny Fry (upper right in photo) was just 19 when he won a horse race in Missouri in 1860—and got a job. For Alexander Majors watched that race and...
Seth Bullock and Sol Star are directly responsible for the town of Belle Fourche, SD. The pair owned the land in the 1880s. They offered a right of...
Although Seth Bullock gets a lot of notoriety when it comes to Deadwood, his partner Sol Star actually was more prominent at the time. The...
March 25, 1877. The Joel Collins Gang tries to rob a stagecoach just outside Deadwood, DT. During the holdup, one of the outlaws shoots and kills...
Ike Black was an outlaw, overshadowed by the man he rode with: Zip Wyatt. The two robbed stores and post offices throughout the Oklahoma and Indian...
Roy Bean is best known as the eccentric Texas judge. But at least once, he was a promoter, putting together a championship boxing match between...
In 1840, it wasn’t politics as usual in Bellevue, Iowa Territory. Two well-armed sides decided that the ballot box wasn’t enough to finalize who...
Famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow tried to ensure a victory in the 1907 trial of Western Federation of Miners official “Big Bill” Haywood. The...
For many baby boomers, the lasting image of the Alamo comes from the ’50s. The 1950s. Fess Parker is the title character in Davy Crockett: King of...
Joshua Norton spent more than 30 years in San Francisco, from 1849 to 1880, and for most of them he was the self-proclaimed “Emperor” Norton. He...