There were many entrepreneurial men who found a way to “mine the miners,” including Levi Strauss, John M. Studebaker, Philip Armour and Ah Toy, who...
Perhaps Lincoln County (NM) Sheriff William Brady’s biggest headache in office was getting a jail. When he took office in 1869, prisoners were held...
Several members of The Regulators were in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, well before the famed war. Among them: Doc Scurlock, Charlie...
Was there a real “code of the West”? The simple answer is, no. Although Zane Grey featured one in his 1934 novel of the same name, there was no...
Little Arch Clement was just 18 when he took command of a Confederate guerilla unit upon the death of Bloody Bill Anderson. In February 1866—with...
Bloody Bill Anderson got little respect in death. The Confederate guerilla died in battle on October 26, 1864. Union troops set his body up for...
In 1862, William T. Anderson lived up to his “Bloody Bill” nickname. Anderson’s father had been shot dead by a judge in Council Grove, Iowa. Bill...
Jake Snively is relatively unknown in Arizona history today but for a time he was one of its most important citizens. He came west to Texas in 1835,...
The New York Tribune published, on March 26th, 1893 a story describing a gunfight in Big Hat, Arizona. Two prominent citizens meeting to settle a...
In the early 1850’s Sir George Gore, a British nobleman, bestowed with enormous wealth and a thirst for adventure, decided to go on a hunting...
A bondsman is a person who provides bond or surety for another. A bondsman is a person who provides bond or surety for another. In the...
Evett Dumas Nix was only 32—and with basically no law enforcement experience—when he was named US Marshal of Oklahoma Territory in 1893. He led the...