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....

Long Haired Sam Brown led a gang in California’s Calaveras County in the 1850s.  He was dealing cards in 1855 when a Chilean miner grabbed someone...

Ed Scarborough isn’t as well-known as his lawman father George, who killed John Selman.  But Ed made his own mark.  He originally served as posse...

Boone May is not the biggest name in Old West annals, but he was a terror to outlaws in the 1870s—first as a shotgun messenger for the Cheyenne and...

Arizona’s rugged central mountains, with their brawny mountains and twisting, boulder-choked canyons were a perfect place to lose a mine. Coronado’s...

During the Mexican Revolution American adventurers, especially barnstorming pilots were much in demand by both sides.  In 1911 during the early...

Among the wide gamut of working women in the West were not only schoolteachers, nurses, restaurateurs, seamstresses, good time girls and even...

I have many fond memories of Jerome as my home town, Ash Fork was, as the crow flies, just over the hill. I played high school sports against Jerome...

Martin Mrose is best known for being a romantic rival of John Wesley Hardin—and of being killed in El Paso in 1895.  But a decade earlier, Mrose had...

George Ruffner was Yavapai County’s perennial sheriff. He was a top notch peace officer and an expert tracker; it was said he could track “bees in a...

There are a lot of Old West items floating around in the world of collectors—including the bullet that killed gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. Bill...

Martin Mrose is usually painted as an Old West rustler and thief who got what was coming to him in June of 1895.  Several lawmen filled him full of...