The life of a miner was tough. Those hard rock miners faced a number of hazards including gas pockets, cave-ins, silicosis of the lungs caused by...
Underground Hazards
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Marshall Trimble
The Angel of Tombstone
Nellie Cashman had a giving heart. Tombstone’s Nellie Cashman participated in many worthy causes. Her requests for donations brought her in contact...
A Pearl of Great Price
Madam De Vere and the working girls of Cripple Creek. One of the richest gold strikes in the West occurred in Cripple Creek, Colorado in the 1890s....
Swilling and the Rangers
A founder of Phoenix also started a territorial militia. Arizona’s first Rangers may have been led one of the founders of Phoenix, Jack Swilling. In...
It Took an Apache to Find an Apache
The wiley Indians posed a great challenge on the frontier. One of the smartest strategic moves by the Frontier Army during the Indian Wars was to...
The Bungling Bandit
Al Jennings’ outlaw career was the stuff of legend. During his long and colorful life, Al Jennings was a cowboy, lawyer, gunslinger, train robber,...
Nogales, Oklahoma?
Hollywood brought the Sooner State to Arizona. When Hollywood decided to make a movie of the Broadway play “Oklahoma” they couldn’t find a location...
Little Joe, Boot Hill and Doc Holliday
Are Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers really buried where the markers are placed at Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard? James Carroll (San Antonio,...
The Governor/Doctor of Arizona
Ben Moeur was a colorful character. Arizona’s “Depression Governor” Ben Moeur was raised in San Antonio, Texas and liked to say, “I punched cows...
The Birth of the Dime Novel
The genre helped define the myth of the Old West. In 1860, the publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle released a new series of cheap...
Leaving the Trash Behind
How some Indian tribes dealt with refuse. Nomadic tribes moved every few days or weeks as the campsites got too odorous and messy (think about the...
Arizona Charlie’s Promise
He said he’d go when the snow flew in Yuma… When Wild West showman and shooter Arizona Charlie's show biz days ended, he retired to Yuma. He...