“The ghosts of Masonic have many secrets,” reads a bronze plaque amid the ruins […]
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Missions, Sea Otters and California Indians
The Spanish wanted to convert the local Indians, while the Russians chose to exploit […]
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Where Legends Rest in the West
Westerners in the 19th century, at least most of those we remember today, were […]
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The Day Rangers Relied on Winchesters
Outnumbered 4-to-1 by Comanche and Kiowa warriors, Sergeant E.H. Cobb and his Texas Rangers […]
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Fatal Mix-up on Fremont Street
The two factions in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, likely wanted to engage in […]
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Western Union Did Things Right, And the West Got the Message
Work crews completed the transcontinental telegraph in short order. The first transatlantic telegraph cable, […]
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Navajos Will Never Forget the 1864 Scorched-Earth Campaign
Soldiers destroyed the peach orchards in Canyon de Chelly.
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To the Miners of Virginia City, Julia Bulette Was the Beloved Queen of the Comstock
Firemen were among her mourners when she was murdered. The Virginia City miners had […]
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Lawmen Tried to Arrest the Power Brothers, Touching off Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight
The ‘draft-evading’ siblings survived, but four men died that day. Arizona Territory, site of […]
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Tumbleweed Triumvirate
In Los Angeles in 1924 three celebrated creative men of the West—cowboy artist C.M. […]