To The Point
Seeking Common Ground
The good news first: the end of the 1918 influenza pandemic in 1920 led almost directly to the Roaring Twenties because everyone in the country was so ready to kick out the jams after all the death and depressing times. So let’s hope that history repeats itself this year.
From The Blog
At Odds with Society
Outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez was hanged in San Jose, California on March 19, 1875. Afterwards, his body was buried at the […]
Up Goes Yer Hands
Arizona only sentenced one man to hang for train robbery and that is the story in “Up Goes Your Hands.” […]
Famous Last Words
Some of those western outlaws were tough to the end. What does a condemned man say when he was asked […]
Departments
A Tall Tale of Two Bills
Did lawman Bill Tilghman really arrest outlaw Bill Doolin?
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of HISTORICAL truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs.
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Opening Shot – The Dead of Winter
Indian Infantry Company in winter uniforms pause from their training—possibly as Indian police—to have their photo taken in the winter of 1890.