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...

One day a young man calling himself Brother Johnson came to town and soon his youth and enthusiasm was attracting large crowds. He dazzled them with...

  “Captain” Bill Coe led a gang of rustlers and robbers that roamed the Oklahoma Panhandle into New Mexico and southern Colorado during the...