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A Short Storm at a Deadly Address
On February 25, 1881, after an earlier altercation inside, faro dealer Luke Short, shot and killed fellow gambler Charley Storms outside the ...
Top 6 Art Museums of the West 2016
Western art remains hot. Just look no further than the success of art shows such as the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix...
The Gentleman Train Robber
Eugene Bunch was a gentleman train robber, a former newspaper editor and teacher who turned to crime in 1888. He held up six trains in Texas,...
The Shoots Far Gun
American Indians called the Sharps buffalo rifle the “Shoots Far Gun,” or the gun that “shoots today and kills tomorrow,” and for good reason. In...
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...
An Outlaw with a “Faultess” Figure
Arizona authorities in 1902 reported 22 train robberies in the territory. Lawmen, including the Arizona Rangers rounded up and shot down more than a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...