Arizona has more than its share of colorful towns, places and characters. Up near Wikieup is a place called Nothing. It used to have a saloon called...
Arizona’s Colorful Communities
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Prescott’s Palace
Saloons in the Old West played an important role in the lives of lonely men. They were social gathering places where they could belly up to the bar...
The Great Prescott Fire
Fires were always a menace to frontier towns. The boomtowns of Bisbee, Jerome, and Tombstone all burned to the ground more than once during their...
Passing of a Legend
Doc Holliday: 1851-1887. A prematurely aged, retired dentist, 36 years old, dies alone in a Glenwood Springs, CO, hotel room on November 8, 1887....
The Gunman and the Professor
Warren Earp’s threats over a lost lover. Warren Earp (photo), the youngest of the "Fighting Earps," gets into trouble at Yuma, Arizona on November...
A Wonderfully Cool Man
November 14, 1882. Buckskin Frank Leslie (photo), tending bar, throws Billy Claiborne out of Tombstone's Oriental Saloon for using abusive language....
The Outlaw Trail
An outlaw trail ranged all the way from Canada to Mexico and Butch Cassidy knew the way like the back of his hand. He wasn’t wanted in a number of...
Stagecoach Travel
Stagecoach travel was no place for sissies. The Butterfield Overland Mail began its three-year 2,800 mile run from Tipton, Missouri to San Francisco...
Ben Johnson – Oklahoma Cowboy
Howard Hughes is credited with bringing Ben Johnson out to Hollywood from Oklahoma in the late 1930s and introducing him to director John Ford. An...
Sadie Earp
Sadie was already turning tricks when she was a young teenager. She was a free spirit who took up acting in a traveling show. There were few career...
Arkansas Tom
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory provided some of the West’s wildest history including one of its deadliest gunfights. The battle occurred on...
The Birth of the Horseless Carriage
“YOU ONLY HAVE TO FEED ‘EM WHEN YOU USE ‘EM” Prior to 1800 never has there been a period that experienced such dramatic changes as the 19th century....