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Old West Jails

Old West Jails

Hollywood movie sets built their jails pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol...

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Wyatt Earp Myth Busters

Wyatt Earp Myth Busters

Did Wyatt Arrest Ben Thompson?  This alleged arrest has driven researchers batty for decades. The most famous account appears in Stuart Lake’s Wyatt...

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Hot Times in Hillside Boom Towns

Hot Times in Hillside Boom Towns

Fires were always a serious threat to frontier towns, hillside communities were the most vulnerable. The boomtowns of Bisbee and Jerome all burned...

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Tombstone Jackpot

Tombstone Jackpot

The most famous gunfight of the Wild West era took place on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Over the past 135...

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Unsung Hero?

Unsung Hero?

Deputy Jim Flynn ran unsuccessfully for city marshal of Tombstone on January 3, 1882. Two weeks later, working as a policeman, he disarmed and...

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A Western Life Well Lived

A Western Life Well Lived

Charles Stone is best known as an infamously treated scapegoat. In his concise and well-sourced biography, Blaine Lamb—author of The Extraordinary...

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The Loomis Gang

The Loomis Gang

One of the forerunners of Old West gangs controlled parts of Upstate New York in the first half of the 19th Century. The Loomis Gang was led by six...

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