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...

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...