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A First for Custer Firearms
The “first firearm forensically proven to have been used” at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, as the auction catalog noted, hammered down for a...
The Tombstone Collector
Jim Melikian was window shopping. Normally, the 61-year-old Arizona businessman scoured auction catalogs for items he’s been collecting since he...
DeForest Kelley
Believe it or not, DeForest Kelley almost had one more shot—he did four--at appearing in a Tombstone-related movie or TV episode. He’d played Morgan...
Woman of Gold
Every tale of the Klondike gold rush of 1897-’98 begins with the discovery of gold by George Carmack and his Tagish brothers-in-law. In Wealth...
A Grave Discovery
When Ronnie Atnip returned on another field trip, he was drawn to the Sears-Doss Cemetery located near the Hardin farm. To his surprise, Atnip found...
Tom Mix
The 1920’s was the golden age of heroes that included, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Red Grange, Gertrude Erdle and Charles Lindbergh but the most famous...
The Birth of a Wicked Son Reimagined
Notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was in the midst of writing about the bloody career surrounding his life story when lawman John Selman...
Oh Annie, You Really Showed ‘Em
By 1922, “Little Sure Shot” Annie Oakley had been famous throughout the United States and Europe for decades. She'd been born Phoebe Ann Moses (or...
What Music Did Gen. Santa Anna Request During The Alamo Battle?
What music did Gen. Santa Anna request during the Alamo battle? Elinor Hobart Kansas City, Missouri “El Deguello,” an old battle song originally...
The Baca Float #5
Bob Sharp who managed the Baca Float from 1937 to 1952 wrote: “The Baca Float was one of the last big outfits to run under the code of the...
Stopping a Death Squad
In April 1892, Benjamin Harrison had almost finished his first term as President of the United States. He couldn’t have foreseen it, but he was...