Quantrill’s first Kansas raid was a success. Quantrill’s Raiders are best known for their attack on Lawrence, Kansas during the Civil War. But a...
The Attach on Olathe
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A Deadly Decision
Morgan Earp shouldn’t have gone to play billiards. March 18, 1882. Morgan Earp, Dan Tipton and Doc Holliday attended a performance of “Stolen...
Did Tom Horn Kill Willie Nickell Did Tom Horn Kill Willie Nickell
It’s difficult to say for certain. During the Wyoming cattle wars, Tom Horn was a hired gun, hired by the large ranchers. The cattlemen's...
The Severed Head Campaign
During Arizona’s Tonto Basin Campaign of 1872-1873, General George Crook offered $100 bounties to his scouts for the heads of a few specific...
Clay Allison and Mace Bowman
Just about everybody’s heard of badman Clay Allison but have you ever heard of Mason T. Bowman? The late Leon Metz mentions a newspaper account...
Discover Makers in San Angelo Sponsored by San Angelo
Since 1986, the National Ceramic Competition has taken place in San Angelo. This year, the juried exhibit will be held from April 8 through June 26,...
Not What He Expected
A stunning description of frontiersman Kit Carson. Kit Carson was one of the most famous men in America in the 1840s, renowned for his exploits on...
A Different View of Kit Carson
The Navajo experience was tragic… Kit Carson is remembered as one of the premiere frontiersmen of the West. But Navajo and some Apache think of him...
The Long Walk
The tragic forced relocation of the Navajo. In the spring of 1864, a US Army detachment herded Navajos from their homes in Northeast...
Arizona’s Most Colorful Ladies of the Evening
Several come to mind including Miss Edith, who had a business near the railroad tracks in my hometown. I delivered her newspaper and ran small...
A Tall Tale of Two Women: Part 2 – Cynthia Ann Parker
Cynthia Ann Parker was born to Silas and Lucinda Parker (nee Duty) in Crawford County, Illinois. She was born about 1824. In about 1834, they...
A Tale of Two Women: Part One – Olive Oatman
The Oatman family was traveling alone on the Gila Trail near today’s Gila Bend in 1851 when they were attacked by a band of Western Yavapai Indians....