One for the Grave

Outlaw John Shaw gulped his last whiskey while surrounded by 15 cowboys as the sun rose over the cemetery in Canyon Diablo, Arizona Territory. One problem: John Shaw was already dead. A dead guy having a pick-me-up should fall squarely into the category of legend, and an easily dismissed one at that. But the story of Shaw’s last drink is derived from photographs and eyewitness testimony. The episode exemplifies how the West was more than wild. Sometimes it was plain weird. A Gunman’s O