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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Wild Bunch – The Ice Wagon Affair
In the fall of 1901, the last thing Nashville, Tennessee, expected was trouble from a train robber. After all, it had been more than...
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...
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...
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....