One of the most unusual roadways in the West was the famed Plank Road west of Yuma. Built in 1916 out of wooden planks, it crossed the White Sand...
In the summer of 1882 a number of Apaches rallied around a leader named Na-ti-o-tish and went on a spree in the Tonto Basin. From the town of Globe...
Monument Hill near La Grange, Texas is an interesting story. The remains of Texians killed by Mexicans in the Black Bean Episode and the Dawson...
Ewen Cameron survived the Black Bean Episode, but not for long. A group of Texians had tried to invade Mexico in 1843. They failed and most were...
During an interview with John Flood in the 1920s, Wyatt Earp stated he received a phone call from Bob Paul in Benson following the attempted...
Phillip “Doboy” Taylor was involved in Texas’ Sutton-Taylor Feud. In 1867, he and his brother Jack participated in a gunfight in which two soldiers...
Zadock Woods was a true Western pioneer. Born in Massachusetts in 1773, he and his family moved to Missouri around 1802. He fought with Andrew...
During the Battle at Apache Pass the Apache warriors had built a breast work of rocks on two hills just east of the Butterfield Stage Station,...
One of the most unusual yet lucrative types of ranching came into fashion in the late 1800s. With a head-em-up, move-em-out and a yippie-ti-yi-yay,...
Among the popular forms or recreation that took up what little free time the hard-rock miners had included baseball, wrestling and boxing. A miner’s...
Out here history lies in the badlands, prairies and rivers that flow through Southeast Montana. Visit Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument...
Lew Cooley was a stage driver and friend of the Earps in southeast Arizona. In mid-April 1882, he boarded an eastbound train in Benson—and met with...