Wild West Women: Tabitha Brown – A Grandmother Goes West
Tabitha Brown was sixty-six years old when she headed west with her family in 1846. As a widow she had reached a time when...
Wild West Women: Ah Toy – A China Blossom in Old San Francisco
About 1848 a Chinese woman called Ah Toy arrived in San Francisco, California. She had endured the long sea voyage from her native Canton,...
Edward F. Beale, Sailor, Adventurer, Explorer
Edward Fitzgerald Beale was born February 4, 1822, to George and Emily Truxtun Beale. They lived on a farm in the District of Columbia....
The Whipple Expedition to the Southwest
Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple had just finished surveying the border between the U.S. and Mexico when on February 4, 1853, he received orders to...
Newspapers of the Old West
Newspapers were considered a major sign that a western town became civilized. Everyone greeted the arrival of a printing press with great joy. People...
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch
George Leroy Parker was born in 1867 to Maximilian and Ann Parker, the oldest of seven children. The family lived in Circleville, Utah. His...
Hank Vaughan, Oregon Rustler
Henry Clay Vaughan was born on April 27, 1849, to Alexander H. and Elizabeth Fields Vaughan. The family farm was located in the Willamette...
Phoebe and Holden Judson, Pioneers of Washington
Phoebe Goodell grew up in Vermillion, Ohio on Lake Erie. She married Holden Allen Judson in 1850. They went west to start their own...