King Woolsey, was one of Arizona’s best-known pioneers during the 1860s. He prospected for gold in Arizona before the Walker Party arrived in 1863....

The Long drives from South Texas to Kansas from the 1860s to the 1880s were roughly six hundred miles and took about six weeks. I should have taken...

It was 1903, and Apache leader Geronimo staggered into a Dutch Reform Church at Ft. Sill, OK, where he was being held as a prisoner of war.  He was...

Bill Cook grew up in the Indian Territory, where he also made a name for himself.  Born in 1873, he was busted for whiskey peddling in 1893.  After...

There was a real-life Grizzly Adams (but very different from the 1970s TV character).  John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1812 and went West...

Although there were cattle drives prior to the Civil War their heyday came in the years that followed. The war had pretty much depleted the beef...

Frank Waters’ 1960 book The Earp Brothers of Tombstone was once considered an authoritative look at the Earps, as seen through the eyes of Virgil’s...

Who is Fred Harman? Walter Wehlauch Jacksonville, Florida Fred Harman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1902, but his family moved to Pagosa...

Somewhere along his wild and wooly way Roy Bean had developed a schoolboy crush on the beautiful English actress Lillie Langtry. He went so far as...

This is a powerful, American melodrama with strong, fearless characters willing to endure anything to realize their dream of striking it rich in...

Isaiah Dorman was the only black man killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  Dorman was an interpreter based on his years living with the...

The old TV show said “he wore a cane and derby hat.”  There’s plenty of photos of Bat Masterson wearing derbies—but none of him carrying a cane....