Standing over six feet tall, the broad shouldered Josias M. “Si” Tanner stepped up to Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith on the night of July 8, 1898,...
Con Man’s Curse
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History Features
Tombstone’s Flying Monster
One of the West’s most fascinating cold cases involves a flying monster, a dying town and a disappearing photograph. For decades, people have been...
Ship ’em Out
It was a situation that just asked for trouble. In late June 1917, several locals of the International Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)—led by Big...
The Many Faces of Billy the Kid
Some 126 years ago, a traveling photographer snapped a picture in the remote frontier community of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, that would become one of...
A Case for Murder
It's been called the Haywood Trial, after one of the defendants. Others have named it the Steunenberg Case in reference to the victim. Media...
Birth of a State
November 16 dawned warm and sunny in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, in 1907. Citizens of the Twin Territories had been traveling for days to get to...
Birth of a State
November 16 dawned warm and sunny in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, in 1907. Citizens of the Twin Territories had been traveling for days to get to...
Dreamscape Desperado
"Billy the Kid just keeps riding across the dreamscape of our minds-silhouetted against a starlit Western sky, handsome, laughing, deadly." When I...
A Tale of Two Governors…
One put him under the ground, the other tried to pull him up, and both left him out to dry. Despite Billy the Kid’s best efforts, and those of his...
Dreamscape Desperado
"Billy the Kid just keeps riding across the dreamscape of our minds-silhouetted against a starlit Western sky, handsome, laughing, deadly." When I...
A Tale of Two Governors…
One put him under the ground, the other tried to pull him up, and both left him out to dry. Despite Billy the Kid’s best efforts, and those of his...
Those Aren’t Russian Cossacks!
“This is not a circus but an ethnographical exhibition; the people of various nations clad in their national outfit and ammunition enact...