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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade, Part 1
Jim Bridger was born in the spring of 1804. When Jim was eight the family moved from Virginia to a Missouri farm not far...
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...
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 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,...