The story goes that Kid Curry and two pals were on the run after holding up a train near Parachute, Colorado. On June 9, 1904, they came to the...
A Bad Tip A ranch wife had bad advice for Kid Curry.
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Inside History
Forgotten Hero of Denali
Alaska native son Walter Harper was the first to ascend North America’s highest peak, but his fame—and life as a physician—were cut short by...
Lincoln: Prepare Ye the Way for the Horde
The president paved the way for the great Westward Expansion. On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for the second...
The Mexican Revolution of 1910: Part II
On the night of March 9th Villa attacked the small American town of Columbus, New Mexico, leaving seventeen dead Americans behind. It was the last...
Pulling a Slick One A cowboy ruckus covered up a murder in Caldwell, KS.
On December 16, 1881, a group of rowdy cowboys hurrahed Caldwell, Kansas. But it really was a ruse. The cowboys repeated the behavior the next...
A Tall Tale of Two Bills
Did lawman Bill Tilghman really arrest outlaw Bill Doolin?
Swung Into Eternity A minister’s anti-slavery views proved fatal.
Anthony Bewley was a fire and brimstone Methodist pastor outside Fort Worth, Texas just before the Civil War. He was an abolitionist, which made him...
The Battle Over Salt
The San Elizario salt flats were the prize in a Texas feud.
Olive Johnson
A coal camp teacher discovered herself and the world in the Mohrland, Utah, melting pot.
A Two-Fisted Lawman Jeff Mynatt used his guns and more in the line of duty (and beyond).
Jeff Mynatt spent much of his adult life in law enforcement. He was a deputy U.S. marshal in Indian Territory, a lawman in various Texas locales,...
Shooting At Siringo A rustling investigation nearly cost the Cowboy Detective.
Patrick Coghlan owned a cattle ranch in the Three Rivers area of New Mexico. Lawmen, including the legendary Charlie Siringo (photo), found some...
Outlaw Turned Lawman Turned Outlaw The strange tale of Ben Sippy.
Ben Sippy is best known as the man who beat Virgil Earp in the election for Tombstone marshal in 1880—and then suddenly (and somewhat mysteriously)...