Butch Cassidy’s folk hero image actually exceeded his outlawry. In 1898, a Chicago newspaper referred to him as the “King of the Bandits,” and the...
Was Butch Cassidy a Master Train Robber?
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Brother Vs. Brother
Old Schonchin was head chief of the Modoc, and he was responsible for moving the tribe to a reservation in southern Oregon in the mid-1860s. He...
Boot Camp or Basic Training
Recently, I received a question from a TW reader who wanted to know if during the 1800s the military had some kind of a boot camp for new recruits...
Peaches or Tso-ay
Prior to his stint as an Army scout Peaches rode with Chatto, Bonito and Chihuahua on a raid in March 1883, that killed twenty-six settlers that...
Don’t Mess with the Rangers
Thomas Brooks picked the wrong guy to rob. April 24, 1896, near Dogtown in the Creek Nation. Brooks heard that a retired Texas Ranger had a stash of...
One More Killing
The Early-Hasley War was already over in the fall of 1869, having racked up a number of killings in Central Texas. But there was one more killing to...
Jim Miller’s Killin’ Kin
John Denson was one of the Clements family, cousins to John Wesley Hardin and an in- law of Jim Miller. John built up his own reputation as a tough...
An Apache Named Fun
On the San Carlos Apache Reservation in the 1870s the U.S. Army was charged with writing down the names of each tribal member who was eligible to...
The Far Western Frontier in the Late 1700s-1860s
During the 1770s Spain believed her colony of Florida was under threat from American frontier settlers and was determined to stop American...
History and the Myth
In 1849 Kit Carson rode as scout for a company of Dragoons in pursuit of Apache raiders along the Santa Fe Trail. They had taken a white woman,...
The Man Called Teddy Blue
Edward Charles Abbott was born in England—but he became the prototypical American cowboy. His family moved to Texas when he was a boy; he later...
Any Bullet Will Do
It's brother against brother in the action packed western Any Bullet Will Do. Taking place during 1876 in Montana, a ruthless headhunter tracks his...