Climax Jim was the darling of the Arizona press during the late 1890s. He rose to fame thanks to the fertile imaginations of the old-timers who knew him and the newspaper reporters who embellished and enlivened the activities of this likable street-wise kid from the East Coast who had matured into a notorious escapologist, rustler and rascal. The outlaw’s suggestive sobriquet also made him something of a public curiosity.
His colorful confrontations with the law weren’t exactly the st

December 2012
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- Kid Curry’s Last Gunfight
- Remington’s Second Life
- Hanging Your Hat in Colorado’s Historic Hotels
- 10 for 10: Grapevine, Texas
- Tom Van Dyke
- Gold Rush Genealogy
- December 2012 Events
- Hometown Visionaries
- Did the last hanging in the Old West take place in Santa Rosa, California?
- Did women in the West buy their foodstuffs in bulk?
- Do you agree with Maurice Kildare, who claimed the men hanged for the Bisbee Massacre were not the culprits?
- What camera equipment did Tombstone photographer C.S. Fly use?
- What kind of beans did cowboys cook on the trail?
- A Dickens Christmas
- Let’s Rodeo
- Fine Fruitcakes
- The Dalton Death Rifle?
- Remembering D.L. Birchfield
- The Geronimo Trap