In the years following the Mexican War and the Gadsden Purchase, the United States was planning to survey several areas ranging from the Canadian...

Jack Slade ran the Central Overland stage stop at Julesburg, Colorado. His predecessor, Jules Beni (the town was named for him), didn’t like the...

A Smith & Wesson revolver is exhibited at the Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, Alaska. Purportedly, it belonged to Wyatt Earp, who came through town in...

While many gang leaders boasted they were mean enough to eat off the same plate with a rattlesnake, Butch Cassidy is best-remembered as the...

In San Francisco in the 1850's, there was a vigilante group that called itself the 601. Just in case you’ve wondered where that name came from...

A few years ago I was in Tombstone working with a film crew from the United Kingdom. Naturally, one of the sites they wanted to include was the...

Lawman Jeff Milton was tough. He was severely wounded in the left arm during an attempted train robbery near Fairbank, Arizona in February 1900. A...

Billy Stiles couldn’t decide which side of the law to work. In the early 1890s, he served as a tracker for Cochise County (AZ) lawmen John Slaughter...

Jeff Milton never could give up the badge, starting as a Texas Ranger in 1878 at age 17. Over the next three decades, He was a deputy U.S. marshal...

Folks often ask, "Were townsfolk generally as cowardly and cowered as portrayed in movies like High Noon?"  Was it that difficult to get men of the...

When the Yuma Territorial Prison opened for business on July 1st, 1876 the planners overlooked an important detail. The builders never envisioned...