The Old West didn’t run on wifi or warrants alone; it ran on nerve. These sheriffs (and a few sheriff-adjacent lawmen who wore the badge when it counted) kept boomtowns, railheads, and border trails ...

On Christmas Day 1851, Lieutenant Amiel Whipple and his men find themselves outnumbered and facing certain death at the hands of the Quechan people. What happens next is what many would consider a ...