Nelson “Nicholas” Van Alstine was born to a Dutch family on Aug. 7, 1816, in Canajoharie, N.Y. He was raised to be a farmer, but at age 21 he joined the U.S. Army at York, Pa., for a three ...

The plot involves cowboys, the Wild West, sheriffs and bad guys, livestock and rustlers, and a lone lawman who epitomized the Code of the West. Best of all, it’s a true story. Wyoming ...

“You know what the sheriff’s doing back there?” asks a range hand as he watches the lawman dress in drag. “He thinks he’s Mary Poppins.” In addition to listening to such finely honed ...

Hollenbaugh ordered the wounded Sharpe to the deputy’s car, forced the girl to lie down on the back floor, and told the lawman to drive the car down a farm road toward Highway 522. Ten feet from ...

Pennington St. for $2,900. The lawman and his wife lived in that house for 20 years. A Jan. 15, 1884, Arizona Daily Star article described the beginnings of the original Starr Pass road ...