During the 1850s no sooner did the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers survey wagon roads to the Pacific than emigrants began painting their...
Clark Foss started a stage line in Napa Valley, CA during the Civil War. It was a route with sharp turns and huge drop-offs, and “Old Foss” gained...
A few years ago I received this letter from a hunter of lost treasures. “I have a question that I cannot track down an answer. I have an article...
I recently reread Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. He writes about an 8-gauge shotgun. Are there any still around? The 8-gauge dates back to the...
Billy Bailey had the reputation as a dangerous man. Reportedly, he killed two men in Texas gunfights before moving to Kansas in the early 1870s. ...
June 18, 1878. A group of men spot outlaw Nick Worthington outside the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, NM. They order him to surrender; Worthington...
I had a question the other day asking if the U.S. Cavalry had remudas like the Old West cattle drives. I’ve never come across anything referring to...
Frank Wattron wore many hats during his years in Holbrook. Along with running his drugstore, he was the first elected Sheriff of Navajo County in...
George McJunkin was a black cowboy who began riding the ranges at the end of the Civil War—when he was 14-years old. He was self-taught in reading...
Fort Griffin, Texas became infamous in its brief run. Founded in the Panhandle in 1867, the place was a magnet for folks like Doc Holliday, Wyatt...
Charlie Rath was one of those Old West success stories that could only happen in the U.S. Born in Germany, he came to America at the age of 11 in...
A few years ago an activist wrote a revisionist history about the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1837 claiming the U.S. Army deliberately infected a...