Empire Ranch In time the Empire became one of the largest cattle operations in the entire Southwest. At the height of operations, the ranch was running 50,000...
Yuma Plank Road One of the most unusual roadways in the West was the famed Plank Road west of Yuma...
Rangers To The Rescue In the summer of 1882 a number of Apaches rallied around a leader named Na-ti-o-tish and went on a spree in the Tonto Basin...
Telephone Service To Tombstone By the time telephone line was strung, the Earp’s already left Tombstone.
Private John Teal Makes a Stand The standoff lasted for about an hour when one unusually large Apache rode up close. Teal took careful aim and fired, sending a bullet into the huge midsection of the warrior. Suddenly, the Apache lost interest in Teal and rushed to the aid of their fallen comrade...
When Cowboys Became Ostrich Boys With a head-em-up, move-em-out and a yippie-ti-yi-yay, cowboys, became ostrich boys, were actually driving herds of ostriches...
Drilling Contests For the hard-rock miners, the most popular contest of all was single-jack and double-jack drilling...
Tom Bullock’s Railroad Tom Bullock was a gregarious, smooth-talking promoter. He'd been a bartender Prescott's Whiskey Row before heading to New York where he made a fortune building street railways...
Apache Agent Believing that the Indians would respond better if they were able to govern themselves, he organized a police force of Apache...
