There’s been many a young man or woman who dreamed of climbing into a time machine and transporting themselves back to the days when the West was...

Dutch Henry Borne (also spelled Born and Bourne) was one of the most prevalent and notorious livestock thieves in the West. It’s surprising he isn’t...

According to Cochise County Deputy Sheriff, Billy Breakenridge, Richard “Zwing Hunt,” was one of the baddest of the bad hombres in that...

Anthony Bewley was a Methodist pastor south of Ft. Worth just before the Civil War.  He was outspokenly abolitionist, and that angered his...

Milton Duffield was a seasoned gunman, claiming his first victim in 1854.  That reputation must have helped him in some ways; in 1863, he was...

A True West reader recently asked, did the Butterfield Overland and Mail in Arizona ever come under attack? And where in the Arizona were the...

We always see on Hollywood westerns, the jails in towns like Tombstone, Dodge City are portrayed with large windows with bars to prevent escape. But...

Ed Schieffelin must have been a brave man.  In 1877, he set up shop at the Brunckow Cabin, a few miles southwest of the town he would help found and...

Baz Outlaw was the kind of guy you didn’t want be anywhere near when he was drinking. Baz came from a good family, was educated and had fine...

Frederick Brunckow met his end while trying to develop mining in southeast Arizona.  The German native claimed a mine near modern-day Tombstone in...

Sometime around 1870 Waltz filed on a homestead in south Phoenix near the Salt River. Later in life he fell upon hard times and was being looked...

Marion Turner was a Lincoln County (NM) deputy and a gunman for the Murphy-Dolan faction.  When the Battle of Lincoln broke out in July 1878, Turner...