Wild Bunch – The Hunt for the Great Northern Train Robbers
As Great Northern westbound train No. 3 pulled away from Malta, Montana, on the afternoon of July 3, 1901, conductor Alex Smith saw a...
Wild West Women: Adah Isaacs Menken
Adah Isaacs Menken found her own brand of reward in the mining towns of early 1860s Nevada. Adah was as an actress, though she...
James Ohio Pattie – Fur Trader, Mountain Man, and Explorer
Pattie's family lived in Missouri when James was born. After his mother died of consumption, his father was despondent. About that time, fur trapping...
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 Bunch – The Wilcox Robbery: Who Did It?
On June 2, 1899, the Cheyenne Daily Sun-Leader reported that at 1:00 a.m. that morning, six masked men had held up Union Pacific train...
Wild Bunch – Capturing a Train Robber: Kid Curry’s Escapades in Knoxville, Tennessee
Following their holdup of Great Northern train No. 3, near Wagner, Montana, on July 3, 1901, Harvey Logan (Kid Curry), Ben Kilpatrick and Camillo...
Wild Bunch – Kid Curry’s Escape: The Missing Months
Following the July 3, 1901, robbery of a Great Northern train near Wagner, Montana, Harvey Logan (Kid Curry) was able to avoid arrest for...
Paulina, Shoshone Chief
Chief Paulina led a small band of Shoshone (Snake), Paiute, and Modoc raiders. He roamed the territory east of the Cascade Mountains of...
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...
Wild Bunch – The Trials and Travels of Annie Rogers
Wearing expensive clothes and carrying more than $500 in cash, Annie Rogers walked into the Fourth National Bank of Nashville, Tennessee, on the afternoon...