March 19, 1840.  A contingent of Comanches came to San Antonio’s Council House for a peace conference with Texian authorities.  But things went...

Nellie Cashman’s many requests for donations to charitable causes brought her in contact with cowboys, miners, gamblers, outlaws and the ladies of...

If These Walls Could Talk by James D. Crownover is a complex fictional story with a plethora of characters set in southern New Mexico and Arizona in...

Nellie Cashman was the quintessential gold mining stampeder. For more than fifty years she combed the mining camps of the Far West. Her adventurers...

Father Emanuel Schneider became the first priest at Tombstone’s Sacred Heart Church in January 1881.  He lasted just six months—probably because he...

Nellie Cashman had the “Luck of the Irish,” to go along with a keen knowledge of geology and business.  She’d arrive when a boom town was in its...

The S.S. California was built in 1848 to take mail and passengers from Panama to California.  But its services grew in demand when the Gold Rush...

Ben Thompson, one of the most noted gunmen of the Old West, was a man famed in his own time for his prowess with a pistol. Yet only two biographies...

Charlie Storms is best known as an Old West gambler and gunfighter who came up on the short end of a shootout with Luke Short in Tombstone in 1881....

When a group of Apaches raided a Navajo encampment near the Little Colorado River in 1878 and killed all but three people, the Navajo leaders sought...

Many men and women came west in the 19th century to pan out that dream of getting rich; a few did but most didn’t, but none could match success of a...

John Younger was the youngest of the “fighting Youngers”—but he was the deadliest.  He killed his first man at age 15. In January 1871—still 19—he...