Ruben Flanoah “Noah” Wilkerson stepped out of Joe Erimmer’s buckboard, and after thanking him for the ride from Parachut…
Inside History
Attacks on the Butterfield Stage The Butterfield Overland stage did come under Apache attack on at least two occasions.
A True West reader recently asked, did the Butterfield Overland and Mail in Arizona ever come under attack? And where in…
Did Old West Cowboys Really Wear Bib Shirts?
Did Old West cowboys really wear bib shirts? Barbara Young Little Rock, Arkansas Bib shirts were popular military wear a…
Old Jails The cliché of the jail bars, with the big window is quite unrealistic.
We always see on Hollywood westerns, the jails in towns like Tombstone, Dodge City are portrayed with large windows with…
Setting up Shop Ed Schieffelin’s early base of operations was the Brunckow Cabin.
Ed Schieffelin must have been a brave man. In 1877, he set up shop at the Brunckow Cabin, a few miles southwest of the …
Baz Outlaw Baz Outlaw was the kind of guy you didn’t want be anywhere near when he was drinking.
Baz Outlaw was the kind of guy you didn’t want be anywhere near when he was drinking. Baz came from a good family, was e…
What Did Cowboys Do After Reaching the End of a Cattle Drive?
What did cowboys do after reaching the end of a cattle drive? Wes Shinn Saratoga Springs, New York When the cowboys hit …
The Deadly Cabin Many people were killed at the Brunckow place.
Frederick Brunckow met his end while trying to develop mining in southeast Arizona. The German native claimed a mine ne…
The Lost Dutchman: Where the Legend Began The Mammoth Mine, over the next four years produced some three million dollars of the yellow metal.
Sometime around 1870 Waltz filed on a homestead in south Phoenix near the Salt River. Later in life he fell upon hard ti…
Crime Pays? A Lincoln County warrior later struck it rich.
Marion Turner was a Lincoln County (NM) deputy and a gunman for the Murphy-Dolan faction. When the Battle of Lincoln br…