Few folks driving on the old Ghost Town Trail northeast of Tombstone, through Gleeson, Courtland and Pearce are aware of the fact that it was quite...

  It seems like my entire life has been spent living in a drought. I was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1939 where we lived on a small livestock...

Kim Darby made her mark in the 1969 version of True Grit.  She was not an obvious choice for the lead of Mattie Ross, who was supposed to be 14....

Edmond O’Brien is probably best known for his roles in a number of film noir movies and television shows.  But he made an impact in two notable...

Zwing Hunt—yes, that was probably his real name—ran with the Cochise County Cow-boys during their heyday.  It turned out to be his undoing. In March...

Leander McNelly had the distinction of serving as a captain of both the Texas State Police and a special force of the Texas Rangers. It was a...

Edmund J. Davis was a Reconstruction governor of Texas—and not a popular one.  He was a former Union officer who joined the Republican Party after...

The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression.  Harry Goulding, proprietor of Goulding’s trading post on the...

Jack Helm is probably best known for being a victim of Texas’ Sutton-Taylor Feud (John Wesley Hardin was one of the gunmen involved in his death—see...

The question about hygiene in the West came up the other day from someone wondering if cowboys brushed their teeth. Well, some did and some didn’t....

Tombstone’s fabulous Bird Cage Theater opened December 23rd, 1881 to a raucous crowd territorial Arizonans.  There’s no doubt in the realm of legend...