LANDSCAPES, LEGENDS AND LORE. THE REST IS HISTORY IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA. Visit the website at SouthwestMT.com A visit to Southwest Montana is more...
Jesse West was a well-to-do businessman and rancher in Texas and Oklahoma. He and Joe Allen had been partners with Gus Bobbitt in several ventures....
Lew Wallace came to Santa Fe in 1878 to serve as New Mexico territorial governor. He moved into the Palace of Governors, which was in pretty bad...
The Horrell brothers were raising hell around Lampasas, Texas in 1873. In January, they shot and killed the county sheriff. On March 19, seven...
A 1908 gunfight was one of the most unusual in Tombstone’s history. On June 20, Marcello Mendez shot a woman three times in a local house. The...
Deputy U.S. Marshal Jacob Owens had a busy year. On April 6, 1871 he arrested Wyatt Earp in the Cherokee Nation for stealing horses. Earp later...
Situated along the creek for some twenty miles and bearing the same name, the Babocomari was one of the most ideally situated of all the Mexican...
They used to say if you could hold a job cowboying in the Tonto Basin you could cowboy anywhere in the West. In 1874, the Christian Christopher...
Those early California gold camps with their boardwalks and muddy streets, false-front buildings and tent dwellings were as vivacious at their names...
Indiana outlaw Frank Reno and two of his gang members were in a Council Bluffs, Iowa jail at the end of March 1868. They had robbed three county...
Cattle were first introduced to the land that would become the Empire Ranch back in 1699 when the legendary Jesuit padre Father Eusebio Kino brought...
William “Big Foot” Wallace is a Texas legend. He fought Mexicans and Indians. He was a Texas Ranger. In spite of all of his dangerous adventures,...