The heyday of Cripple Creek began around 1890 when a cowboy named Bob Womack found gold. For years he’d been telling anybody who’d listen the narrow...

One of the most important military roads during the Apache Wars in Arizona was the General Crook Trail along the Mogollon Rim from Fort Verde to...

The “Code of the West” was born with the silver screen cowboys. It was first chronicled by Zane Grey in his 1934 novel, The Code of the West. No...

A truly realistic western does not shy away from portraying the blood-soaked violence that went part and parcel with the taming of the American...

Ike Black was an outlaw, overshadowed by the man he rode with: Zip Wyatt.  The two robbed stores and post offices throughout the Oklahoma and Indian...

Roy Bean is best known as the eccentric Texas judge.  But at least once, he was a promoter, putting together a championship boxing match between...

When the pioneers were crossing the Great Plains where there were no trees, where did women find privacy to go to the bathroom? Also, if you were...

In a sense, Pete Kitchen represented Arizona’s transition from lawless frontier to civilization. In 1861, the U. S. Army was withdrawn from Arizona...

Off the beaten path, you will find San Angelo, an Oasis in west Texas. March is the perfect month for the history enthusiast to visit this unique...

Famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow tried to ensure a victory in the 1907 trial of Western Federation of Miners official “Big Bill” Haywood.  The...

Joshua Norton spent more than 30 years in San Francisco, from 1849 to 1880, and for most of them he was the self-proclaimed “Emperor” Norton.  He...

James King of William (he gave himself the last part of that name to distinguish himself from other James Kings) was a crusading newspaper editor in...