Ann Bassett was quite the woman, running a ranch in northwest Colorado around the turn of the century.  She was involved in the range wars. She was...

They call him the “Last of the Silver Screen Cowboys.” They might have added he was also the only one of the famous singing cowboys who could lay...

The Tascosa Gunfight of 1886 isn’t well-remembered today.  It involved two factions—cowboys of the LS Ranch versus men in smaller cattle operations....

On the outskirts of Casa Grande, along what used to be the main highway between Tucson and Phoenix stands a simple, concrete monument surrounded by...

Doc and Jim Manning killed lawman/gunfighter Dallas Stoudenmire at an El Paso saloon in 1882.  The pair were charged with murder, and it looked to...

The Espinosa family lived in southern Colorado in the 1850s and ‘60s.  It’s not clear exactly why, but they declared war against Anglos and Mexicans...

“Queen Ann Bassett” was a rancher in the Brown’s Park area of northwest Colorado. In 1900, her fiancé, Matt Rash, was assassinated by Tom Horn as...

Peg Leg Smith, ranks right up there with America's legendary mountain men, including Bill Williams, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Joe Walker, Jed Smith...

The most celebrated Thunderbird encounter took place in 1890, on the desert sands of what was then the Arizona Territory. Two cowboys had a bizarre...

Between 1854 and 1929 an estimated 200,000 homeless, abandoned or orphaned children were placed by eastern charity institutions like the Sisters of...

Over in eastern Arizona near the border with New Mexico, Del Potter ran a little railroad he proudly named the Clifton and Northern.  The line only...