Captain William Fetterman disobeyed orders on Dec. 21, 1866. He took an 80-man detachment out of Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, to rescue a group...
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Join Bob Boze Bell on Facebook and YouTube LIVE May 19th at 5pm PDT to learn the mysterious circumstances behind Johnny Ringo's end that may point...
The Apache never saw themselves as a political unit. They were families, clans and bands. Being matrilineal, chiefs often united bands by marriage. ...
Gambler Charles Cora had taken prostitute Arrabella Ryan as his mistress in San Francisco in 1855. U.S. Marshal William Richardson made an insulting...
Dave Rudabaugh sure got around. His outlaw career began in Arkansas in the early 1870s. He may have robbed stagecoaches in the Dakotas before...
What were small town movie theaters like in the 1940s during the heyday of B-Westerns? Remember this was before those little b/w television sets...
Most, when they hear the name, Cartwright Ranch, Pa, Little Joe and Hoss immediately come to mind but out in Cave Creek, Arizona the folks all know...
June 11, 1879, Bat Masterson and about 60 hired guns take over a railroad roundhouse in Pueblo, Colorado. They represent the Santa Fe Railroad in...
When the first Argonauts came to California and established mining camps, there were no laws to speak of, something that prompted one rascal to...
The post-Civil War years were boom times for cattle ranching in the West. Henry Clay “HC” Day, a New Englander from Vermont, decided to seek his...
Harry Saxon was the nephew of Cochise County Cowboy Wes Fuller—but he took an entirely different path in life. In 1903, at the age of 21, Saxon was...