A negative editorial set Clay Allison off. It was January 1876, and gunfighter Clay Allison was angry. The Cimarron News and Press had...

Dallas Stoudenmire and the keys to the El Paso jail… April 1881. Gunman Dallas Stoudenmire has just been named marshal of El Paso. He goes to get...

Author Louis L'Amour told a story about an old gambler describing a way of cheating at cards, "He in-jogged the top card, took off the bottom and...

How did the Clydesdale become associated with Budweiser Beer? The Clydesdale was initially bred for farm work in Clydesdale, Scotland more than 300...

From Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics, regarding daily rations: Looking at the soldier’s rations, note the specific inclusion of green...

The capture—er, surrender—of Sam Bass. In Texas, lawmen were on the lookout for robber Sam Bass in 1878. They finally found him, just outside the...

Soapy Smith and the demise of the Sam Bass Gang. The Sam Bass Gang had a budding outlaw in attendance when they attempted to rob the Williamson...

Bad gambling drove Sam Bass to outlawry. Outlaw Sam Bass tried to head down the righteous path. In 1876, he and partner Joel Collins decided to...

Because white settlers coveted their ancestral lands in 1864 the U.S. government pressed the two tribes to relinquish most of their territory in...

Every town in the West had their "boothill" where people go for the “Long Sleep.” It's supposed to signify that the permanent residents of the...

From 1821 until the Gadsden Purchase in 1854 the Mexican government sold and awarded granted land under Mexico’s 1824 Law of Colonization, it called...