The outlaw Jesse James became one of the most notorious figures in American history. To his admirers, he was…
A Border Dispute Brings Two Neighbors to the Brink The Toledo War was a boundary dispute between the U.S….
Joaquin Murrieta was one of California’s most notorious and controversial Gold Rush-era figures. He was reputedly either a cruel…
In the Mississippi Valley in 1832, native nations and white settlers collided in a deadly struggle for land, power,…
The Barbary Pirates of North Africa, based in Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, had raided shipping in the Mediterranean…
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of slavery. He came to prominence with…
The Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most contentious events in American Western history, took place in September 1857….
Doc Holliday wasn’t just an accomplished dentist; he was a gambler and a fearless gunfighter, a companion of the legendary Wyatt Earp in the frontier tumult of the Wild West. His life was a confluence of intelligence
