Dave Mather was a man of mystery—not only in life, but also in death. “Mysterious Dave” straddled the line between outlaw and lawman, and left behind few reliable documents for us to figure out his life story. Mather was born in the northeast United States in 1851; one of the few certain facts. Both his parents died by the time he was 16, so he and his brother, Josiah, headed west. In Arkansas, in 1873, he allegedly rustled cattle with Dave Rudabaugh before fleeing the state. He dabble

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
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- Hot Summer Reads