In the old days they used to say that anyone who visited the Grand Canyon and didn’t meet the great windjammer, Captain John Hance, had missed an...
John Hance, Grand Canyon’s Windjammer
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The Slopers
In 1880s Tombstone, the Police Gazette reported a rivalry between gamblers: West Coast card sharps, called “Slopers,” competed with gamblers east of...
My family connections include John Wesley Hardin and Clay Allison, both of whom had Tennessee ancestors. Did the outlaws ever meet?
Don Magers Saltillo, Tennessee “Wes Hardin never went to Tennessee,” says author Dennis McCown. “Clay Allison’s ‘outlaw years’ and death all...
Big Wheel on the River
Born June 6, 1822, in Springboro, Ohio, John C. Ainsworth was orphaned at 11, quit school at 13 and worked in his uncle’s country merchant store. A...
Angels and the Bad Men—and Women
Deadwood’s story, as revealed in Deadwood Saints and Sinners (Farcountry Press, $14.95) by Jerry Bryant and Barbara Fifer, is more than Calamity...
The Jaybird-Woodpecker War
The Jaybird-Woodpecker War has the most colorful name in Texas feuds. It supposedly came from a black man who sang songs about those birds. The...
New Doc Photo Discovery?
Look closely at the street scene from Silver City, New Mexico. Notice the skinny cat standing by the third stagecoach window, right hand in pocket,...
Ike Clanton’s Last Ride
Ike Clanton managed to survive the “Gunfight Near the OK Corral” by running away after the shooting started and Wyatt Earp’s vendetta ride after the...
When Good Horses Were Ridden Down
One of the longest posse chases in Arizona history came after the attempted robbery of the Benson Stage on March 15, 1881, when a large posse,...
Rock Springs Massacre
Tensions over Chinese immigrant labor came to a head in Rock Springs, Wyoming on September 2, 1885. White workers were upset that the Union Pacific...
O.K. Fight
“Three Men Hurled into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment” October 26, 1881 The Earp brothers and John Henry “Doc” Holliday confront the Cowboys...
Tilghman’s Tall Tale
The story goes that Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman was tracking the Doolin Gang in January 1895. He entered a dugout on the Dunn ranch, looking...