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...

The Lost Dutchman is one of the greatest lost mine stories of them all. I've spent years studying and writing about it (even searching for it) and I...

Dan Clifton—alias Dynamite Dick—was a key member of Bill Doolin’s outlaw gang in the 1890s. He was involved in safe cracking, robbery, and rustling....

William “Red” Angus made a name for himself during Wyoming’s Johnson County War. He ran a liquor store in Buffalo when he was elected county sheriff...

Not much is known about the Oklahoma outlaw named Dan Clifton. Where and when was he born? How did he become an outlaw? And where did he get the...

On July 17, 1870, in Hays City at Paddy Welch’s saloon a couple of drunken troopers from Custer’s 7th Cavalry jumped Hickok, who was back in Hays...

Someone asked me the other day if famed Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest brilliant or slightly insane. For those of you who are not...

As the railroads expanded throughout the West in the 1880s it opened new opportunities for the outlaws. The 1890s saw an epidemic of train robberies...

Dave Updyke was a livery stable owner in Boise City, ID (photo). He was respected enough to get elected the first Ada County sheriff in 1864—but...