In April, 1887 Apache County Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens dispatched Apache County deputies Albert Miller and Rawhide Jake Brighton to arrest Ike...

A bit of New Mexico history was lost recently.  The Old Dowlin Mill in Ruidoso was destroyed by a gas explosion and fire.  It was the oldest...

Joseph “Hooch” Simpson holds the distinction of being the last person lynched in California. On April 19th, 1908 in Skidoo, California, Hooch...

H.F. Sills was the mystery man of the O.K. Corral hearing.  Sills was visiting Tombstone at the time of the shootout and had no connections to...

Annie Oakley wasn’t the only great female sharpshooter in the 19th century.  In fact, many people thought that Lillian Smith was even better than...

Ike and Fin Clanton had survived the Cochise County War against Wyatt Earp and his brothers five years earlier and had moved their Cattle thieving...

When a passenger train pulled into the little town of Langtry to take on water the passengers had about twenty minutes to flock to the Jersey Lillie...

The Pinkertons say they lured train robber John Reno to the Seymour, Indiana train depot in 1867.  According to the story, as the train was rolling...

The New Albany, Indiana Jail was just a few years old when four members of the Reno Gang were moved there in 1868.  They were supposed to be jailed...

Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was...

The Reno Gang hit the big time on May 22, 1868.  They robbed a train near Marshfield, Indiana of about $96,000—more than $1.5 million in today’s...