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...

The revolutions in Mexico and the California Gold Rush had depleted much of the male population in northern Sonora. In some villages the ratio of...

Tom Logan was a respected lawman in Tonopah, NV (photo, seated left). But on April 7, 1906 he was a customer at a bawdy house in Manhattan, NV....

The end of Texas robber Brack Cornett is shrouded in mystery. In September 1888, after his gang was broken up, Cornett headed to the town of Frio....

Texas outlaw Brack Cornett had a short but violent run on the outlaw trail. Starting in May 1887, Cornett and gang leader Bill Whitley nabbed tens...

Emigrants heading west in covered wagons usually had a wagon master who knew the trails and had experience getting through the trials and travails...

After running away from the gunfight in the vacant lot near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ike Clanton made a desperate attempt to get the Earp’s and...

They called them “tumbleweed wagons” because like their namesake, the Russian thistle, they seemed to wander aimlessly across the territory picking...

The relationship between John Wesley Hardin killer John Selman and his son, John Marion Selman (photo), was not very close. Old John abandoned the...