In 1868, the first black troops reported for duty at Fort Concho in San Angelo, TX. The nickname “buffalo soldier” was given by Native Americans...

I’ll never forget sitting next to my mother at my father’s funeral. Dad was a carefree cowboy when he met my mother, a sixteen-year-old Irish girl...

The joke is on Iowa lawmen. April 1, 1868. Officers check the cells at the Council Bluffs, IA jail--and find that four members of the Reno Gang have...

For many of the guerilla fighters, the Civil War didn't end at Appomattox. Some, like the James and Younger brothers used the skills learned in the...

A bright orange glow spread across the eastern New Mexico horizon on the morning of March 9, 1916. The sleepy border town of Columbus was slowly...