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...

Jerome, perched precariously on the slopes of cone-shaped Cleopatra Hill is a popular tourist attraction today. Despite some occasional bickering...

New Year’s 1875 found Doc Holliday celebrating at the St. Charles Saloon in Dallas, once his home base but he had moved to Denison.  The revelries...

During the Spanish-American War, Harry Wheeler was a member of Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders but not with the Arizona Squadron. He enlisted with the...

Long before Matt Dillon, Chester and Miss Kitty wrapped their hands around a warm cup, coffee was a staple on the frontier.  In 1849 while surveying...