Back in the long hot summer of 1968, I was driving up the Apache Trail working on a story of the 1872 Battle at the Salt…
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Leadville, Colorado One of the greatest boom towns in Western history.
Leadville was one of the greatest boom towns in Western History. Miners struck silver in 1877 and the rush was on. Durin…
Lost Dutchman Mine One of the greatest lost mine stories of them all.
The Lost Dutchman is one of the greatest lost mine stories of them all. I’ve spent years studying and writing abou…
Who Was The Real George Hearst? The mining magnate might be a modern-day Western film villain, but in reality he was an audacious, self-made entrepreneur of the American West.
As students of both broadcast entertainment and Western history should be aware, there are two George Hearsts, and the c…
The Militancy of the Miners The Western Federation of Miners waged war in the West.
Mining was vital to the growth of the Old West—perhaps more so than even the cattle industry. It also led to violent cla…
Comstock Inferno Would the world’s richest mine survive the Comstock Fire?
A gray dawn crept into leaden skies over Virginia City, Nevada, on the morning of October 26, 1875. The uniform layer of…
A Race for The Copper Queen George Warren lost his share of what would become a very fruitful mine in a race against a horse.
In the spring of 1877, a government scout named Jack Dunn was winding his way down what later became known as Tombstone …
Tom “Peg Leg” Smith "Peg Leg" was one of the Old West's grittiest mountain men.
Peg Leg Smith, ranks right up there with America’s legendary mountain men, including Bill Williams, Jim Bridger, K…
Oatman Genesis Is Oatman named for olive, or not?
Did John Moss, friend of Mohave leader Irataba, name the Oatman mine and, hence, the town after Olive Oatman? Or was the…
Lost Pick Mine
Arizona’s rugged central mountains, with their brawny mountains and twisting, boulder-choked canyons were a perfect plac…