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...
Henry Gonzalvo “Gon” Woods was a Texas hero. He fought in the Revolution. He was an early Texas Ranger. He was one of two survivors of the Dawson...
A few weeks after Wyatt Earp and the Vendetta Posse killed Frank Stilwell at the Tucson depot in March 1882, the dead man’s brother “Comanche Jack”...
For Pete Spence, marriage was a godsend of sorts. He was accused in the March 18, 1882 assassination of Morgan Earp in Tombstone. Spence’s wife...
David Janin was one of the foremost mining engineers in the United States and his presence should have given credibility to the scheme. However, he...
John Doherty was the former sheriff of Mora County, New Mexico. On December 9, 1893, he was in his home office when an assassin shot and killed him...
James Allen is best known for a March 2, 1880 incident at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Working as a waiter, he shot to death a...
J.J. Webb was marshal of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1880. He was also a member of the Dodge City Gang which basically ran the town—often in...
Tom Bullock was a gregarious, smooth-talking promoter. He'd been a bartender Prescott's Whiskey Row before heading to New York where he made a...
During the mid-1870s the federal government began using churches to staff the reservations in Arizona. The two most successful converters, the...