Chief Dan George is perhaps best known for playing Old Lodge Skins in the 1970 Western Little Big Man. He was not the first choice. Director Arthur...
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Arizona’s Most Famous Card Game
Arizona is a place that loves its myths and legends. Sometimes it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction. Such is the story of Corydon Cooley and...
DeForest Kelley
Believe it or not, DeForest Kelley almost had one more shot—he did four--at appearing in a Tombstone-related movie or TV episode. He’d played Morgan...
Tom Mix
The 1920’s was the golden age of heroes that included, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Red Grange, Gertrude Erdle and Charles Lindbergh but the most famous...
Lon Megargee
Lon Megargee is often characterized as Arizona’s original cowboy artist. He was born in 1883 just about the time Buffalo Bill Cody was transforming...
Tom Harper Hangs
Tom Harper was a good friend of Curly Bill Brocius during Tombstone’s heyday. He also bit the dust before his Cowboy associates. In September 1880,...
Peg Leg Smith and His Lost Gold Mine
Thomas Smith, ranks right up there with America's legendary mountain men, including Bill Williams, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Joe Walker, Jed Smith...
battle of adobe walls
If you visit Tombstone’s Boot Hill Cemetery, you’ll find a marker for John Heath. He was the brains behind the so-called Bisbee Massacre, a...
Arizona’s Shangri La
When one imagines pristine Arizona’s dry, desolate, sun-baked deserts in the 1850s it’s difficult to picture any of it as being a utopian Shangri La...
Death Valley Scotty
It was called The Battle of Wingate Pass—but it was a con job by the famed Walter “Death Valley Scotty” Scott. In 1906, Scotty was taking an...
Doc’s Gal
The relationship of Doc Holliday and “Big Nose Kate” is well known. But when did it start? Many accounts say the pair met in Ft. Griffin, TX in...
James Brothers First Heist, Maybe?
Tradition says that Jesse and Frank James pulled their first bank heist on February 13, 1866 when they hit the Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty,...