Prairie Fever was also known as “Prairie Madness.” It affected settlers emigrating to the Great Plains following the Homestead Act of 1862. It...
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Native American Burial Customs
American Indian burials were as diverse as the Native Americans culture and languages. Keep in mind these customs could vary within a tribe. Some...
The Extra Mile A Potawatomie farmer gave his life for law and order.
Pete Anderson was a farmer on the Potawatomie Reservation in what is now Oklahoma. On Christmas Day 1890, two local lawmen deputized Anderson as...
The Law Goes Beyond The Law A Montana lawman worked closely with the vigilantes.
Neil Howey made his mark in Montana during the gold rush days of the 1860s. He started off seeking the precious metal—but he found a calling in law...
That Cow Business? Did Merritt Horrell rustle cattle or a woman?
Rancher Pink Higgins walked into the Lampasas, Texas’ Gem Saloon on January 22, 1877. He approached Merritt Horrell, reportedly said something about...
Steam Engines The steam engine was invented in England in 1825 and a year later it arrived in America...
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 Johnson Canyon was blessed or cursed with a stretch of extreme hard basalt rock that required blasting a way through and building the tunnel.
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...
Scalphunters Bounty hunters were a varied assortment of mankind...
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...
Bob Boze Bell’s Art Show & True Westerner Award Presentation Michael J. Fox and BBB were honored at Scottsdale's Museum of the West this past week.
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 And Guns Frank Loving and John Allen were determined to shoot it out.
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 Day The Rails Reached Phoenix The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running through Phoenix...
The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running...
Don’t Mess With The In-laws Cullen Baker angered the wrong folks.
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. ...