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...

The Seven Rivers Warriors started off as a group of small ranchers around Lincoln County, NM. But when the Lincoln County War broke out, they went...

The question often comes up about what kind of pay peace officers received in days of the Old West. Salaries varied quite a bit. A deputy U.S....

Route 66 had some colorful characters operating roadside stops in the first half of the twentieth century and one of the most colorful was Rimmy Jim...

When Robert J. Conley died in 2014, the Cherokee Nation and Western literature lost a tremendous voice. Evelyn Conley, his widow and driving force,...

Frank McNab (or MacNab) was second in command of The Regulators, the Lincoln County (NM) outfit that tried to settle the score for the murder of...

The acquisition of the horse in the 1600s brought immediate and sweeping changes to the Plains Indians. For the first time it gave them a wide range...

While watching westerns on television and movies you see trains pull up and stop at a water tower and fill up the steam engine. How did those pumps...

Many famous outlaws died robbing banks and trains. Some, however, died in peculiar ways. For example, during a train robbery the Tall Texan, Ben...

Hispanics and Puebloans in present day New Mexico were concerned in 1847.  The US had just taken over the region, and the natives feared they would...