On August 6, 1895, gunman John Wesley Hardin nearly got into a strange shootout. He and his lover Helen Beulah Mrose were in an El Paso (photo)...

By the time he died in August 1895, John Wesley Hardin had finished about 200 pages of his autobiography, up to the year 1889. Researchers Chuck...

Basically there were only two types of trappers, the engage, or lowly company employee who worked for wages and the enterprising aristocrat of the...

Like gold dust on the mining frontier, beaver pelts acted as the medium of exchange in the mountains. Unique to the American experience was the...

The first white men to venture “across the wide Missouri” were awed by the breathtaking sight of the majestic Rocky Mountains that loomed on the...

John Wesley Hardin’s youngest brother Gip—like most of the men in the family—led a strange life. He was a Texas school teacher in 1896 when he...

John Wesley Hardin’s older brother Joe had a hard time finding a final resting place. After Wes killed a Texas lawman in May 1874, vigilantes took...

Helen Hunt Jackson became interested in the plight of Native Americans in the latter half of the 19th Century. So she wrote Ramona, a melodramatic...

Wherever folks settled in the rugged wilds of the West there remained a desire to keep up with what was happening “Back in the States.” Local events...

The Yuma Territorial Prison opened its doors and closed in 1909 it didn’t lie fallow for long. Before becoming one of Arizona favorite state parks...

When Arizona was still a young territory, lawbreakers were usually confined in a jail in the sheriff’s office. However, as the population grew in...