The Reno Gang hit the big time on May 22, 1868.  They robbed a train near Marshfield, Indiana of about $96,000—more than $1.5 million in today’s...

The story goes that John Wayne was a judge on a talent show for college students in the late ‘60s, and he was very impressed with the girl...

William Wells spent most of his life in New York, yet he had a profound impact on the Old West.  In the early 1850s, he was heavily involved in the...

Nelson Story was already a wealthy man in 1866.  He’d moved to Montana a few years earlier and found gold.  He used some of the riches to start...

John Heath is best known as the mastermind of the 1883 Bisbee Massacre, an attempted robbery gone bad that resulted in four deaths.  He was lynched...

For two long years, the northern Plains Indians fought the U.S. army over a series of forts along the Bozeman Trail.  The conflict was called Red...

Tom Jeffords is best known as an Indian agent in Arizona Territory—and for his close relationship with Apache Chief Cochise.  In fact, Jeffords was...

Alfred Y. Allee wasn’t afraid to use his gun.  The Karnes Co., Texas deputy shot and killed a robbery suspect in 1882. He was arrested because the...