Katherine Ross already had a substantial Hollywood career when she starred as Etta Place in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” In fact, she’d...

Union General Order 11—issued in August 1863--commanded that four counties in northwest Missouri be cleared of all Confederates and their supporters...

One of the big questions about George Armstrong Custer: did he have a Cheyenne mistress who bore him at least one son? It’s hard to be sure, but...

In 1897, Frank Canton—former Texas outlaw and lawman in various locales—was appointed a deputy US marshal in Alaska. He later wrote that he had to...

It was 1908, and a group of men came together to film a silent Western called The Bank Robbery. It’s not clear if it was based on a real crime, and...

Temple Houston—the son of Sam Houston—was famed in Texas and Oklahoma as a brilliant attorney. He proved it in 1899 when he defended alleged madam...

James B. Hume’s father had plans for the boy—he would farm the family land in northern Indiana. But when Hume became a man, he had other ideas and...

Frank Canton, a feared killer and lawman, got his comeuppance in the early 1900s. He was drunk at the saloon at the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, WY....

John Robert Baylor was an ambitious man, one who wanted position and power and recognition. He had shown that many times over between his move to...

Felix Vinatieri was the band leader of the 7th Cavalry, and in that job he also composed music especially for the unit’s leader, Lt. Col. George...