The Wigwam Saloon in Winslow, Arizona proved to be good and bad for a local lawman. In April 1905, Navajo County Deputy Pete Pemberton took out...
The Plains Indians called him the “Horse-chief of the Long Knives,” and the whites have called him, the “Father of the U.S. Cavalry.” The war...
The storied Santa Fe Trail opened for business in 1821, a year that coincided with the birth of the Mexican Republic. The Mexican Revolution ...
On the outside, Jack Davis appeared to be an honest businessman in the Virginia City, Nevada area. But in November 1870, he showed his true...
It’s seen toward the beginning of the Clint Eastwood movie “Hang ‘em High.” A wagon, a jail on wheels, a paddy wagon, that carries Eastwood and...
On stagecoaches there usually wasn't a "First Class," however some companies did have three classes. First Class got to ride all the way; Second...
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...