The director of that film, H.C. Potter, recommended that he drop the "u" from his last name and soon thereafter the actor was officially known as James Arness. Little work followed this break ...

For the first time in 150 years and after more than 50 years of conservation efforts, the number of saddleback giant tortoises (Chelonoidis ephippium) seems set to recover unaided on Pinzón ...

James Bickerton is a Newsweek U.S. News reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is on covering news and politics in Texas, as well as other general news across the United States. James joined ...

Cowboy film star Tom Mix spent his last night at a Tucson ranch with then-Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols and famed western writer Walt Coburn. The trio gathered at Coburn’s Catalina Foothills ...

October 12, 1940, was a sun-drenched autumn day in Southern Arizona, with afternoon temperatures reaching toward 85 degrees. North of Tucson, along Highway 79 on the way to Florence, the desert ...