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...
Not What He Expected
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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....
Facing Down a Lynch Mob
Nellie Cashman saved a mine owner from certain death. E.B. Gage was one of the most successful mine owners and businessmen in Tombstone during its...
Deaths with Dignity
A Tombstone woman ensured doomed men received some respect. Nellie Cashman made a name for herself in Tombstone, as a successful businesswoman as...
The Angel of the Cassiars
Nellie Cashman came to the rescue of stranded miners. Nellie Cashman was one of the great figures in the Old West, an entrepreneur who was famed for...
Sam Houston and the Alamo
Did Sam Houston ever call the Alamo a death trap? Did he order Jim Bowie to burn it down and to get out of the area? Historian, Bob Palmquist wrote:...
McClellan Saddles
The McClellan saddle was adopted by the U.S. Cavalry in 1859. It was designed by future general, George McClellan after a tour of Europe where he...
Healthcare in Old West Prisons
Healthcare in Old West prisons varied widely. Some were progressive and some weren’t. Most prisons had some kind of medical facility or infirmary to...