The Wild West
Published: April 06, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Young Dot and Bianca Babb experienced the good and bad of life in native camps after being captured from their parents' Texas ranch by Comanches. An article by Gregory F. Michno in Wild West magazine.
Published: March 08, 2007 at 3:59 pm
The house at 1318 Lafayette St. in St. Joseph, Missouri, was a one-story white wood cottage with green shutters, sitting in a lot on the brow of a hill overlooking the town. It was Monday, April 3, 1882, and over …
Published: March 02, 2007 at 12:40 pm
The bungled double bank robbery attempt by the Dalton Gang in the brothers' old hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892, left eight men dead and four wounded. The saga of that holdup attempt would have been Keystone Kops …
Published: January 29, 2007 at 2:54 pm
At about 11:30 p.m. on December 28, 1881, some two months after the so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral had rocked Tombstone, assassins opened fire on City Police Chief Virgil Earp outside the Oriental Saloon in that same divided community. …
Published: December 15, 2006 at 4:15 pm
A rugged bunch of Texas cowboys pursued the stock-stealing Kid; some of them helped Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett capture him.By Frederick Nolan
Published: December 07, 2006 at 10:54 am
Deputy U.S. marshals served on both sides during the Lincoln County War, and for a short time, in February 1878, William Bonney served as a federally deputized posseman.By David S. Turk
Published: October 19, 2006 at 9:36 am
During their outlaw careers, the James brothers and the Younger brothers dealt in fine-blooded stock, raced thoroughbreds and rode beautiful American Saddlebreds. All were expert horsemen, always paying careful attention to their animals, which were essential tools of their 'business.' …
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Published: October 18, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Before his heart gave out in 1926, famed Western artist Charles Marion Russell completed two incredible murals that provide a panoramic vision of the West.
Published: October 18, 2006 at 4:18 pm
A dispute over a gold mining claim in the lower Sierra Nevada involved three sets of brothers and led to four deaths and one sensational murder trial. By Harold L. Edwards
Published: September 05, 2006 at 4:59 pm
One of the most candidly understated descriptions of a funeral in the history of the Old West was written by Arizona historian Opie Rundle Burgess in her 1967 book Bisbee, Not So Long Ago, when she recorded her mother's …
Published: August 14, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Although his glory years in Tombstone were behind him, down-on-his-luck Doc Holliday delivered a parting shot or two in Colorado.By Roger Jay
Published: August 14, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Cowboy Billy Clanton still lay dying, his face contorted with pain, when the press began the difficult task of piecing together the details of an October 1881 street battle in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. In later years it would become known …
Published: August 14, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Young Wyatt Earp wears his badges well. Learn more about the photo's history and provenance.
Published: August 14, 2006 at 1:55 pm
All-night card games were hardly unusual at the Occidental Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. But the game that broke up at 7 o'clock on the morning of October 26, 1881, was one the players would never forget — nor would …
Published: July 25, 2006 at 11:04 am
Although usually portrayed as a man of peace, Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle may have been an ineffective leader at best.By Gregory Michno
Published: July 25, 2006 at 11:01 am
General Nelson Miles summoned Lieutenant Charles Gatewood to Albuquerque in July 1886 and ordered the reluctant veteran of the Apache wars to go find the elusive Chiricahua leader down in the mountains of Mexico.By Louis Kraft
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