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...

“Queen Ann Bassett” was a rancher in the Brown’s Park area of northwest Colorado. In 1900, her fiancé, Matt Rash, was assassinated by Tom Horn as...

Kim Darby made her mark in the 1969 version of True Grit.  She was not an obvious choice for the lead of Mattie Ross, who was supposed to be 14....