Edmond O’Brien is probably best known for his roles in a number of film noir movies and television shows.  But he made an impact in two notable...

Zwing Hunt—yes, that was probably his real name—ran with the Cochise County Cow-boys during their heyday.  It turned out to be his undoing. In March...

Leander McNelly had the distinction of serving as a captain of both the Texas State Police and a special force of the Texas Rangers. It was a...

Edmund J. Davis was a Reconstruction governor of Texas—and not a popular one.  He was a former Union officer who joined the Republican Party after...

Jack Helm is probably best known for being a victim of Texas’ Sutton-Taylor Feud (John Wesley Hardin was one of the gunmen involved in his death—see...

  “Captain” Bill Coe led a gang of rustlers and robbers that roamed the Oklahoma Panhandle into New Mexico and southern Colorado during the...

  Nat Kinney led the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group that patrolled the Missouri Ozarks in the mid to late 1880s.  A farmer, merchant and...

Captain Emmet Crawford was one of the tragic casualties of the Apache Wars.  In late 1885, he led a small force into Mexico, chasing Geronimo....

Army Lt. Charles Gatewood is best known for his role in convincing Geronimo to surrender to U.S. authorities in 1886.  But he was also connected to...

It was 1903, and Apache leader Geronimo staggered into a Dutch Reform Church at Ft. Sill, OK, where he was being held as a prisoner of war.  He was...