Surprising new evidence has surfaced in the Wyatt Earp claim that he killed Curly Bill. Wells Fargo historian, Robert J. Chandler, accidentally found an entry in the original Cash Books that points to a stunning possibility. The entry seems to indicate that Wells Fargo paid blood money to Wyatt Earp for killing Frank Stilwell and Curly Bill Brocious. Robert J. Chandler recounts the find: “During my first project with the history department of Wells Fargo Bank in September 1978, I was the fi

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus