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Wild West Magazine
Forced out of office, the Texas native did not give up the fight. In the 1870s Texas was a stamping ground of some of the most notorious outlaws of the frontier era. Stillwell Heady Russell, who in March 1878 became U.S. marshal for the...
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Wild West Magazine
Buffalo Bill and Billy the Kid; or, The Desperadoes of Apache Land (1906, by Eugene T. Sawyer) Forget Pat Garrett. Here Billy falls to none other than Buffalo Bill Cody, in the company of an all-star cast: Wild Bill Hickok, Texas Jack...
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Wild West Magazine
The tintype may be as tarnished as the outlaw himself, but it has obtained legendary status as a one-of-a-kind treasure. The one and only authenticated photograph of Billy the Kid sold at auction in June 2011 for $2.3 million—the highest...
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Wild West Magazine
The ‘draft-evading’ siblings survived, but four men died that day. Arizona Territory, site of the 1881 gunfight near Tombstone’s O.K. Corral (see P. 28) and many other armed confrontations, became the state of Arizona 100 years ago,...
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Wild West Magazine
Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, ‘Buffalo Tom’ Vernon held up a train. Well, not quite like them— it was 1929, and Vernon was strictly an amateur. Out on parole in August 1929, 45-year-old “Buffalo Tom” Vernon was getting...
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Wild West Magazine
He was the state’s most notorious since the James-Younger Gang. When authorities arrested 20-year-old William Rudolph and sidekick George Collins in March 1903 for killing a Pinkerton detective in Missouri, newspapers started calling...
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Wild West Magazine
A brave conductor also paid the ultimate price. Around noon on November 3, 1893, veteran conductor William P. McNally left Poplar Bluff, Missouri, with 300 passengers bound for Little Rock, Arkansas, on Train No. 51 of the St. Louis, Iron...
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Wild West Magazine
Celebrates such Montanans as John Bozeman and Gary Cooper. It is fitting that the pioneer most celebrated by the Pioneer Museum, operated by the Gallatin Historical Society in Bozeman, Montana, is the town founder— John Merin Bozeman....
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Wild West Magazine
Prospecting didn’t pan out, but marshaling had its rewards. The name Matt Dillon is familiar to those who admired the fictional marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, in the long-running radio and TV series Gunsmoke. But not many Western fans...
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Wild West Magazine
While escorting two Helotes Gang members to jail by rail, the U.S. marshal for the Western District of Texas acted the perfect gentleman—and paid the ultimate price. “How they peppered us!” Jim Pitts complained as he and Charlie...
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Wild West Magazine
His right arm lost in a gunfight, he became a deadly left-handed shot. Lawman Ed Johnson was destined to play a lead role in the Marlow brothers’ remarkable story. In August 1888 he was part of a posse that ventured into Indian Territory...
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Wild West Magazine
Tom Clavin brings the rollicking 19th-century cow town of Dodge City, Kansas, to vivid life...
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Wild West Magazine
Bandido Juan Soto stalked California’s Coast Range with abandon—until Sheriff Harry Morse caught up to him...
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Wild West Magazine
In 1876 ‘Persimmon Bill’ Chambers committed several ruthless murders and dished general mayhem on folks traveling to and from gold country on the Cheyenne–Black Hills Road. In 1876, during the heady, freewheeling days of the Black...
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Wild West Magazine
‘The days of the rustler are ended,’ said John Kinney, whose failure to pay import duties played a hand in his downfall. Prohibition-era crime boss Al Capone could have learned a valuable lesson from 19th- century boss rustler...
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Wild West Magazine
The back-to-back robbery of two stages headed for California’s Yosemite Valley led to more than a few trials and tribulations. First described by members of an 1851 military expedition, central California’s awe-inspiring Yosemite...
