The Arizona Pioneers’ Home was unique when it opened in 1911.  It was intended to care for old-timers who had no other place to go.  They had to...

The SS California was launched in May 1848.  It had been on the drawing boards for some time, and government subsidies helped make it possible.  It...

In 1885, Dennis Dilda was running a farm in Yavapai County, Arizona Territory. A man named Jenkins was also living there; Dilda killed him for no...

Jim Flynn is a forgotten man in Old West history, for the most part.  But on January 17, 1882, he pulled off a major feat by arresting three big...

On August 30, 1882, a couple of masked robbers found a way to maximize their efforts.  They held up the Black Canyon stagecoach that was traveling...

Dick Lloyd was one of the Cochise County Cow-boys, a tough guy with a hair trigger.  But he rode into trouble in March 1881. Drunk, feisty and just...

Ann Bassett was quite the woman, running a ranch in northwest Colorado around the turn of the century.  She was involved in the range wars. She was...

The Tascosa Gunfight of 1886 isn’t well-remembered today.  It involved two factions—cowboys of the LS Ranch versus men in smaller cattle operations....

Doc and Jim Manning killed lawman/gunfighter Dallas Stoudenmire at an El Paso saloon in 1882.  The pair were charged with murder, and it looked to...

The Espinosa family lived in southern Colorado in the 1850s and ‘60s.  It’s not clear exactly why, but they declared war against Anglos and Mexicans...