The steam engine was invented in England in 1825 and a year later it arrived in America. By the 1850s trains were chuffing along at 25 mph. Since...
Johnson Canyon, located between Williams and Ash Fork, Arizona on the Santa Fe Railroad (Nee) Atlantic and Pacific RR turned out to be the most...
In Old West movies they show a bounty hunter or family transporting a dead body to some distant location for burial. Anybody who’s been around one...
Last week at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, the True West team honored some deserving Western enthusiasts. To start the night,...
Gamblers “Cockeyed” Frank Loving and John Allen had a history. They’d both been in Dodge City in the late 1870s; they were in Trinidad, Colorado in...
The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running...
Cullen Baker was a stone-cold killer, involved in dozens of deaths in Texas and Arkansas during the period before, during and after the Civil War. ...
During the heyday of the Old West drugs were pretty common and legal. The Chinese introduced opium when they came to America to build railroad...
Henry Brooks (seated left) was called “Peg Leg” after losing a limb in a gunfight in 1884. He was an active participation in the Brooks-McFarland...
That story has been going around in some circles for years. Let me quote from the late Lee Silva, author of Wyatt Earp: A Biography of the Legend....
There was an article written in 1987 by Dr. Peter Bleed, associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska who was chairman of JSSUS...
Carl Adamson was a New Mexico rancher who agreed to buy property from legendary lawman Pat Garrett in 1908. In fact, Adamson was riding in a buggy...