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...
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...
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...
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,...
Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade, Part 3
Next came a dispute between Bridger and Brigham Young. The dispute seems to have arisen because Young thought Bridger was inciting the Indians to...
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...
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...
Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade, Part 2
Bridger spent that winter at the forks of the Snake River. It was not a good spot, as there was very little grass for...