John Sontag had a particular reason for becoming an outlaw: revenge. He was working on the Southern Pacific in 1888 when his leg was crushed as he...
November 5, 1870. A group of outlaws held up a train just outside Verdi, Nevada, in the first train stickup on the Pacific Coast. They made off...
By the latter part of the nineteenth century train robberies had become big business among western outlaws. During one period trains were being...
Outlaw George Curry was better known as “Flat Nose” because of a facial deformity. In the 1880s, he was a criminal mentor to Harvey Logan, who...
Sometimes the stories just aren’t true—and our friends point that out. Recently, we printed a blog entry about a massacre in Sailor’s Diggins,...
Captain Neal was the calmest Ranger of ’em all. Outlaws never doubted that he’d kill if necessary—he just never let it get necessary.
Bill Markley’s dual biography on Jesse James and Billy the Kid, a new Texas frontier history, two Western novels and a new history of the American Indian.
Before Wichita, Dodge City and Tombstone, the Earp Brothers were more notorious than heroic.
Did Sam Bass ever work as a deputy U.S. marshal before becoming an outlaw?
There is so much discrepancy in the dollar figures in these robberies. Authors disagree by tens of thousands of dollars on the amounts taken. I...