A question came up the other day, how does Bat Masterson match up with Wyatt Earp in the history of the Old West? Bat Masterson’s history in the Old...
Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp
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When Doc Met Wyatt
John Henry “Doc” Holliday had a restless year in 1877. The dentist-turned-gambler had spent time in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and in Denver, Colorado....
Globe, Arizona
With a majestic backdrop of the Pinal Mountains on one side and the Apache Range on the other, the town of Globe perches on the banks of Pinal...
What’s Actor Dennis Weaver’s Story?
What’s actor Dennis Weaver’s story? Charlene Allison Los Angeles, California In a career that lasted more than 50 years, Dennis Weaver was best...
Bucking Broncos and Breaking Barriers
Stereotypical pairings often plague the American West. Outlaws and lawmen. War bonnets and Winchesters. Cattle drives and wagon trains. None,...
Following the Guidon: Texas Frontier Forts
Texans take great pride in their storied past, which is as wide and as deep as the vast Lone Star State itself. Nowhere is a sense of bygone days...
A Fateful Game of Cards
A strange card game decided the fate of six Apache warriors, captured by U.S. troops in southwest Arizona in 1861. Lt. Isaiah Moore and Asst....
What History Has Taught Me: Gary L. Roberts
Gary L. Roberts, Doc Holliday Biographer An emeritus professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, Gary Roberts...
Chief Mangas Coloradas
In early 1861, the great Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas went to a mining camp at Santa Rita in New Mexico. He was going to tell the miners of richer...
Did Old West Trains Have Bathrooms?
Did Old West trains have bathrooms? Terry Gin Columbus, Ohio Yep, they sure did. Early toilets ranged from a Hooper Toilet, which was a hole in the...
Bandit Queen Belle Starr
Myra Maybelle Shirley, was another Old West personality who might have been forgotten had she not been reinvented by a novelist. The so-called...
Charles Poston
Charles Poston was several years away from being “The Father of Arizona” when he met with Apache leader Mangas Coloradas in southeast New Mexico in...