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The Wandering Visionary
A hidden assassin with a shotgun blasted Charles Lummis in the face and chest. He was bloodied, blown off his feet, and left to die in the doorway...
The Portrayals of Wyatt Earp
According to the film website IMDb, Wyatt Earp has been portrayed at least 67 times in Westerns, TV shows, docudramas and more. Bert Lindley was...
Jailhouse Rock
In the rough and tumble towns of early Arizona, churches, schools and jails were most conspicuous by their absence. Holbrook became the...
The Treacherous Murder of Captain Emmett Crawford
In January, 1902 when Tom Horn was being interrogated by U. S. Deputy Marshal Joe Lefors regarding the killing of young Willie Nickle he boasted...
No Place Like Home
Tomasita Duran could not believe what was right before her eyes. On that day in 2004, the director of the housing authority saw something special...
No Business Like Show Business
There’s no business like show business, if you tell me it’s so. Traveling through the country is so thrilling. Standing out in front on opening...
The Rightful Writer
Stuart Lake is best known for writing the bio Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. After it was published in 1931, Lake spent much of his life in...
Captain Burt Mossman
Arizona greeted the arrival of the 20th century like a frontier Jekyle and Hyde. The communities like Phoenix and Tucson were becoming cosmopolitan...
The Explosion
Several people tried to help Wyatt Earp tell his life story, but nothing came of it. That changed after his death in 1929. With the publication of...
John Ford- True to Hollywood
Legendary director John Ford considered himself a student of history—especially Old West history. And he often told people how Wyatt Earp gave him...
A Pioneer Paradise
When pioneers settled on Kanab Creek in the late 1850s, they faced hostile Navajo, Paiute and Hopi Indians. Several attempts at settlement ended in...