Howard Marks, famously known as “Mr Nice,” was a Welsh cannabis smuggler turned countercultural icon whose extraordinary life...

Frank Hamer’s story sits at a hinge point in American history, when frontier violence, personal reputation, and local justice were being reshaped by bureaucracy, publicity, and a growing national press. Born in 1884 in Fairview, Wilson County, Texas, he came of age at a time when the mythology of the Old West still lingered, even as the modern United States was taking form. His upbringing was practical rather than romantic. The son of a blacksmith and raised in a devout Presb

The summer of 1947 brought sweltering heat and an even more intense wave of shock to the quiet community of Newark, Ohio. The arrest of...