Several people tried to help Wyatt Earp tell his life story, but nothing came of it. That changed after his death in 1929. With the publication of...
The Explosion
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John Ford- True to Hollywood
Legendary director John Ford considered himself a student of history—especially Old West history. And he often told people how Wyatt Earp gave him...
The Duke and Dollor
John Wayne may or may not have liked horses, but he did have a favorite in his later years. The sorrel gelding was called Dollor—no “a”--and it was...
Branding Cattle: The XXX
The rangeland of Arizona had pretty strict ideas when it came to stealing livestock yet it can’t be denied that a lot of cow outfits got...
Schemer, Lou Blonger
Lou Blonger was a man of many hats. He was a miner, a saloon and bawdy house owner, a gambler, a lawman (for a very brief time). And with his...
Hotel Escalante the Grand Harvey House in Ash Fork, Arizona
The town of Ash Fork was born in 1882 when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which later became the Santa Fe arrived. It was one of five...
Mescalero Melee
On August 5, 1878, Billy the Kid and the Regulators, riding 19 strong, come down through the canyon leading to the Mescalero Apache Agency in...
Uncle Jim’s Last Gunfight
The Old West was quickly fading from reality into myth by the mid-1920’s. Most of the old time gunfighters had gone on to their great reward and...
The Lost Adams Diggings
Somewhere out in these rugged mountains of eastern Arizona, just maybe lies the greatest lost mine of them all…the Lost Adams Diggings. Because of...
A Bloody Ranger Battle
The Conner family had been running roughshod in east Texas for several years when Texas Rangers went after them. In late March 1887, the two groups...
The Escape of Augustine Chacon
Augustine Chacon was one of the last of the hard-riding desperadoes who rode the outlaw trail in the closing days of the 19th century. He was a...
Friends in Film
John Wayne had a number of actors that he liked working with (and made sure that they had plenty of film opportunities). Hank Worden was toward the...