Arizona played a part in one of the great hoaxes of the 1920s when Aimee Semple McPherson, a popular Hollywood show business evangelist, was...
Aimee Semple McPherson Part I
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The Day the Train Rolled into Phoenix
By the mid 1880’s two transcontinental railroads crossed Arizona. The Santa Fe rolled across the northern part of the territory along the 35th...
The Day the Steel Rails Reached Tucson
The building of the transcontinental railroad along the 32nd Parallel was a major milestone in Arizona history. Up to then the main means of...
Isaiah Dorman
Isaiah Dorman gained notoriety for being the only black man killed at the Little Bighorn, where he served Custer as an interpreter. But he had a...
Charlie Bassett
Charlie Bassett has been overshadowed by his friends Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. But he made some pretty big imprints on his own. Bassett opened...
The No-Loot Savannah Debacle
March 2, 1867. Six robbers enter a private bank in Savannah, Missouri. One shoots the bank owner, and then the group flees as citizens open fire...
Arizona Charlie
Arizona is the home today of many famous people but its first superstar was a rodeo cowboy and Wild West performer named “Arizona Charlie.” He was...
Creed Taylor–A Texas Giant
Creed Taylor was a giant in early Texas—but his accomplishments are overshadowed by the deeds of his kin. Taylor was born in Texas in 1820. At the...
Roy Daugherty aka Arkansas Tom Jones
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory provided some of the West’s wildest history including one of its deadliest gunfights. The battle occurred on...
The Angel of Tombstone–Nellie Cashman
Nellie Cashman was known as the Angel of Tombstone for her compassionate ways. In 1884, she ministered to the men responsible for the Bisbee...
Tombstone Cow-boy: Johnny Barnes
Johnny Barnes was one of the Cow-boys in the Tombstone trouble times, and he reportedly shot and wounded Virgil Earp in late 1881. He was with them...
Red Jack Almer
On August 10th, 1883 the Florence-Globe Stagecoach was robbed about two miles from the remote Riverside Station on the Gila River by the Red Jack...