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...

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...
Except for illness, Tombstone mayor and Epitaph founder John Clum might have walked a very different road. After finishing prep school, he decided...
John Clum briefly made his mark in the world of college football. In November 1870, he was on the Rutgers squad that lost to Princeton 6-2; it may...
Smallpox was the scourge of the West, especially to the Indians. It attacked whole tribes and left few survivors. It has afflicted Native Americans...
From 1949 to the late 1960s there were over 100 western series that aired on the networks. Although Gunsmoke was my favorite, every time I watch or...
John Sontag had a particular reason for becoming an outlaw: revenge. He was working on the Southern Pacific in 1888 when his leg was crushed as he...
Roy Gardner was long on guts and short on memory. He took $187,000 during a May 1921 robbery of a train just outside Sacramento. The next morning,...