Two King Brothers shot it out with rancher Robert Carlisle in a Los Angeles hotel.
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Wild Bill Hickok
In the wild west, few men could match colorful Wild Bill, whose exploits as a well-dressed but deadly frontiersman, peace officer and gambler have made him an enduring legend.
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Death at Summit Springs: Susanna Alderdice and the Cheyennes
In May 1869, Tall Bull’s Cheyenne Dog Soldiers carried out a series of brutal raids in north-central Kansas, and though the white soldiers later caught up with them, vengeance could not make everything right.
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Ottoman-Hungarian Wars: Siege of Belgrade in 1456
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 sent shock waves through Christendom. Then, in 1455, the young Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II mobilized his army to march on Belgrade — and from there, possibly move on to the European heartland.
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Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West
The fort, which became a military post 150 years ago, protected and supplied emigrants headed to the West Coast and was the site of several historic peace conferences between the northern tribes and the U.S. government.
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Louis L’Amour’s New Mexico
Seven of the popular Western author’s many novels are set in the ‘Land of Enchantment,’ and they offer real history and real geography for adventuresome historic travelers.
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Battle of Waynesboro: Jubal Early and Phil Sheridan Meet For the Last Time
With his once-formidable army reduced to a mere shadow of its former self, Confederate General Jubal Early pulled up at Waynesboro to face his old nemesis, Phil Sheridan, for the last time.
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Andrew Jackson: Leading the Battle of New Orleans
In January 1815, General Andrew Jackson led a menagerie of American defenders against some of the British Empire’s finest soldiers in a battle that would determine the future of America.
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Murder and Scandal in New Mexico: The Case of Ada Hulmes
The female piano player at Silver City’s Monarch saloon shot down the fire chief who jilted her, sparking a colorful trial and a controversial stint in the territorial prison.
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Sioux Chief Two Sticks
Two years after Wounded Knee, Chief Two Sticks was Ghost Dancing and more.