Shot on the Fourth of JulyA gold field celebration turns dangerous for one California miner.
Miners are notorious for a lifestyle of hard work, at times peppered with harder play. Alfred T. Jackson was a Nutmegger…
Canton Redeemed?
In 1897, Frank Canton—former Texas outlaw and lawman in various locales—was appointed a deputy US marshal in Alaska. He …
Showboat DocWilliam “Doc” Rowan offered a glimmer of P.T. Barnum.
William “Doc” Rowan was a ham in the vein of P.T. Barnum, the circus king of the Gilded Age. For more than 20 years, Doc Rowan shone above Four…
Tall Paul
One of the tallest men in Arizona territory in the 1880s was Pima County Sheriff Bob Paul. The former stagecoach shotgun…
Ambush at Bloody RunBuffalo Soldiers vs Mormon Outlaws
United States Army Paymaster Maj. Joseph Washington Wham (rhymes with bomb) is riding in a dougherty (canopied ambulance) on his way to pay “all troop…
Prescott’s Big Fire
Fires were always a menace to frontier towns. The boomtowns of Prescott, Bisbee, Jerome, and Tombstone all burned to the…
Mining Your Own Business
Approximately 250,000 abandoned mines exist in the state of Arizona, testifying to the scope and impact of mining on the…
How accurate was 1999’s You Know My Name, about Bill Tilghman?
How accurate was 1999’s You Know My Name, about Bill Tilghman? James Patrick Gaines Orangevale, California Like most Wes…
A True West Writer’s 40-Year Journey
Did Remington Capture Clanton’s Last Breath?Art unexpectedly imitated life in master artist Frederic Remington’s first sold work.
The Rise of the Toughest Texas RangerThe Texas Hill Country Life that shaped Frank Hamer into the greatest American lawman of the 20th century.
Texas bred tough men, and none came any tougher than Frank Hamer. He was to the Lone Star State what Wyatt Earp was to Arizona and what Wild Bill Hick…
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