History reports that “Hanging Judge” Isaac Charles Parker sentenced 156 men (and four women) to death. The good judge, though, begged to differ. “I never hung a man,” he told a St. Louis Republic reporter. “It is the law.” Parker, who presided over the Federal Court of the Western District of Arkansas in Fort Smith for more than two decades, personally favored the abolition of capital punishment and never witnessed an execution. But putting his private misgivings aside, he sentenc

July 2013
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- Billy the Kid’s New Mexico
- Custer’s Little Bighorn Battlefield
- Quanah Parker’s Comanche Country
- Tombstone’s O.K. Corral
- Stalwart Army Sweethearts
- Was Bass Reeves the Real Lone Ranger?
- Tom Mix’s Wild West
- Gold Rush Country
- Great Road Reads
- A Poor Man’s Search for Charlie Russell
- Bloody Siege at Milk Creek
- Searching for The Searchers
- A Mandan Circle Unbroken
- Lee Marvin: Point Blank
- Death by Rolling Pin?
- What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico?
- Mysterious Dave
- Power on the Plains
- This is a Hold Up
- Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73?
- Not a Pipe Dream
- Following an American Patriot
- Bloody Sunday Riot
- Left for Dead
- Fort Smith, Arkansas
- July 2013 Events
- Casey Tefertiller
- When were photos first put on wanted posters?
- I’ve read that Sheriff John Behan was a scoundrel in Tombstone during the trouble years. Is that the case?
- Cheyenne / The Boy From Oklahoma
- The Mysterious Journey of Billy the Kid’s Trigger Finger
- The Missing Lincoln
- Billy the Kid is best known for his time in New Mexico, but did he also spend time in Arizona?
- New Releases-Historical Fiction
- New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
- Hot Summer Reads