When discussing the James-Younger Gang at the ill-fated Northfield Bank Robbery, the question often comes up, “Who shot banker Joe Heywood, Frank or...
Charlie Le Flore (also Laflore) was captain of Indian police, deputy US marshal and special agent for the Missour, Kansas and Texas Railroad—all at...
The Anasazi are among the prehistoric peoples lived in The Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. They probably evolved from...
Dick Glass was a Creek freedman who ran roughshod across the Indian Territory in the 1880s. He waged a war against Cherokee authorities in a...
The Great Depression was in full bloom and hard times had fallen on the rural communities of Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa, Arizona that...
Barney Mason and Pat Garrett were tight. Mason rode posse with the lawman in his search for Billy the Kid. He was there when Tom O’Folliard and...
Commodore Perry Owens’ tenure at Apache County, AT sheriff was brief and controversial. Multiple jail breaks raised questions about his abilities....
The Apache Kid is one of the most mysterious figures in Old West history. The one-time Indian scout for the army. But things went bad in 1887 when...
The James-Younger Gang’s first train robbery didn’t go as planned. It was outside Adair, Iowa on July 21, 1873. At least nine outlaws dislodged the...
A bar in Hays City, Kansas, on July 17, 1870. Two 7th Cavalry troopers jump Wild Bill Hickok, a continuation from an earlier disagreement. One of...
The railroad arrived in what became town of Fairbank in 1881. It was the closest rail link to the boom town of Tombstone, at the time one of the...
Leadville was one of the greatest boom towns in Western History. Miners struck silver in 1877 and the rush was on. During that first decade...