Burt Alvord was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, his IQ numbers would pretty much match his waist size. The hobbies included practical jokes,...
Burt Alvord’s Train Robbing Posse
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Can a person ride his horse to death?
Ben Herndon Los Angeles, California Horses can run fast only so long, depending on the conditioning and the breed. Quarter horses are bred for...
The Fix
For more than a century, the Thomas Sharkey versus Robert Fitzsimmons fight of 1896 has been an ugly blemish on the complexion of Wyatt Earp. Dozens...
Big Jim French
Big Jim French was at most of the important actions in the Lincoln County War. Perhaps most notably, he was one of the gunmen—along with Billy the...
A Barn Worth Saving
"So, you’re the people who save things.” Bob McDaniel was looking for exactly those kind of people because this lifelong resident of Santa...
Tom Horn, Roper Extraordinaire
Cowboy Tom Horn of Pleasant Valley, Arizona, won the steer tying competition at the Globe Fourth of July Celebration in 1889 with a record-setting...
The Shoot Out in Holbrook
For newly-elected Apache County Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens, events were moving rapidly towards his rendezvous with destiny. Owens was known as a...
Go West!
Museums across the West continue to embrace Old West stories with exhibits on John C. Fremont, Liver Eatin’ Johnston, cattle trails and the Buffalo...
Kitty LeRoy Was A Jig Dancer And Much More
It was said the voluptuous Kitty LeRoy had been to the altar twenty-seven times. That sounds like an exaggeration but one does get the idea she...
August, the Dirty Low-Down Month
That's how Wild Bill Hickok would have described it in 1876, if he'd lived to tell the tale. The month actually started out very profitably for the...
Baseball at the O.K. Corral
Thanks to Rev. Endicott Peabody, mere months after the so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881, Tombstone formed a baseball team and...
Jesse James Tastes Blood
Jesse James had just turned 17 when the opportunity for violence first arose—up close and personal. He and his older brother, Frank, were riding...