Nelson Story was already a wealthy man in 1866.  He’d moved to Montana a few years earlier and found gold.  He used some of the riches to start...

The first recorded Christmas in Northern Arizona north of the Gila River took place in 1853 at the foot of the snowy San Francisco Peaks where the...

The wild, untamed mountains and barren deserts turned out to contain a bonanza in gold and silver. Wherever there was a rumor and a hole in the...

John Heath is best known as the mastermind of the 1883 Bisbee Massacre, an attempted robbery gone bad that resulted in four deaths.  He was lynched...

My father spent part of his youth living in Langtry, Texas. His first wife, Leta, was the daughter of the town constable, Bart Gobble. My grandpa,...

For two long years, the northern Plains Indians fought the U.S. army over a series of forts along the Bozeman Trail.  The conflict was called Red...

Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was referred to as the wheel horse among the Army’s Corps of Topographical Engineers surveying Arizona during the 1850’s....

Tom Jeffords is best known as an Indian agent in Arizona Territory—and for his close relationship with Apache Chief Cochise.  In fact, Jeffords was...

Alfred Y. Allee wasn’t afraid to use his gun.  The Karnes Co., Texas deputy shot and killed a robbery suspect in 1882. He was arrested because the...