Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

Perhaps no one exemplifies the blurred lines between a Wild West lawman and an outlaw quite like Henry Newton Brown. Born in 1857 and raised in Rolla, Missouri, Brown was orphaned at a young age and ...

John Coffee “Jack” Hays was a prototypical Texas Ranger renowned for his leadership who eventually became the first sheriff of San Francisco. He was born on Jan. 28, 1817, in Little Cedar Lick, Wilson ...

Bartholomew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson was not a man easily defined. Throughout his life, he played several different roles, most notably a buffalo hunter, army scout, lawman, gambler, ...

During a Boy Scout camping trip in 2001, 13-year-old Cody Clawson got lost in Yellowstone National Park. After spending more than 18 hours in the wilderness, Clawson was rescued by the last person he ...

Although it was not always obvious, the downfall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a long time coming. The reasons for this were Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies and the ideology of the Nazi ...

On August 22, 2002, at just 21 years old, Michelle Knight vanished from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio. For about 11 years, Knight was held captive in the home of her kidnapper Ariel Castro, along ...

During routine excavations ahead of the construction of a new student residence in Leuven, Belgium, archaeologists stumbled upon a spectacular find. Around 13 feet beneath the modern city street, they ...

Pat Garrett is best known for taking down the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881, but that fateful encounter was not their first. Born on June 5, 1850 in Chambers County, Alabama, Garrett was one ...

Frank Hamer has, at times, been called the “greatest lawman of the 20th century.” He was most notable for ending the crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde, but his work as a lawman extended far beyond that.

Henry Andrew “Heck” Thomas was born on Jan. 6, 1850, in Oxford, Georgia, the youngest of 12 children born to Lovick Pierce and Martha Ann Fullwood Bedell Thomas. Starting his life shortly before the ...

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok lived a truly wild life — but it arguably had an even more wild end. It was fitting, perhaps, for a man who embodied the spirit of the Wild West better than most others ...