On August 24, 1881, Burt Wilkinson—a member of the Ike Stockton Gang—shot and killed Marshal Clate Ogsbury in the mining town of Silverton,...
Frank Wattron arrived in Holbrook in 1884, just three years after the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (Santa Fe) arrived and the name was changed from...
The Red Jack Gang stopped a stage near Riverside, Arizona Territory, on August 10, 1883. The Wells Fargo man denied the coach had any gold. But a...
David McCanles—later killed by Wild Bill Hickok—was a bully. In late 1859, he caught one of his Nebraska ranch employees drunkenly sleeping on the...
A True West recently asked, “My wife and I watch western movies all of the time. We have noticed that there is a lot of whiskey drinking in all of...
May 21, 1856. Some 800 pro-slavery men sacked the free-state town of Lawrence, Kansas. Two newspapers, a hotel and the home of the former state...
The Sun Dance was a staple of Plains Indian culture during the 19th Century. The four-day prayer event required a year of preparation. It was...
Rancher and gunman Mannen Clements was having some drinks in a Ballinger, Texas bar on March 29, 1887. His drinking companions were both local...
The early history of the Old Muleshoe ranch reads like something out of a Louis L’Amour shoot ‘em up. It was also the stuff that inspires a...
When most Americans think of the Indian Wars, names like Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Quanah Parker, Cochise and Geronimo immediately come...
It’s considered one of the great exploration projects in United States history. The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery left Fort Dubois, Illinois...
It was almost a different kind of Tombstone gunfight. Sam Purdy, editor of The Epitaph, challenged Independent Editor Patrick Hamilton to a duel...