One of the enduring, outrageous legends in Arizona is that a demonic, rogue camel with a skeleton on its back, killed and terrorized the country side for a decade in the 1880s. The “Red Ghost” was allegedly finally killed in a rancher’s garden in eastern Arizona.
April 2016
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- Another Reason To Love “Buckey” O’Neil
- Mickey Free S.O.B.
- What is locoweed?
- The Godfather of Westerns
- Bank Robbery at Round Rock
- Traveling the Chisholm Trail
- Johnny Western
- What Do the Donkey, the Elephant and Santa Have in Common?
- Stinking Badges!
- Tiffany Schofield
- Leader of Destiny: Sitting Bull
- Crash at Crush
- A Square Deal for the Women of Arizona
- The Graham Family vs the Tewksbury Family
- Loser Mountain
- I’ve heard Westerns state “something” is a day’s ride away. How far was a day’s ride in the Old West era?
- A Long Shot
- Famous Last Words
- Bub Meeks and Butch Cassidy
- The Brotherhood of Empirical Failure
- Dining on the Iron Horse
- Betting the Farm in Arizona Territory
- A Fist Full of Double Trouble
- The True History of Lonesome Dove
- Taming Ash Fork, Arizona
- One of the Toughest Lawmen in the West
- Nebraska’s Homestead Settlement Trail
- Trail of Horses
- The Night I Discovered Pluto
- Aztec’s Astonishing Arches
- Gold on the Klondike
- Tom Horn’s Gun
- Wyatt Earp’s Wild Times in Nome
- Hitching Your Wagon to a Star
- History of the Gunfighter
- Back to the Future with J. Frank Dobie
- Arizona’s Laddie Godiva
- Now That was a Party
- The Wild West of James D. Horan
- New Mexico’s Rio Grande
- Wyatt Earp: The Missing Years
- Arizona’s Cowboys and Cattle
- The Apache Joan of Arc
- Bean Belly Egged On
- Why do people mount horses from the left side?
- The Lonesome Dove Trail
- The Legend of Red Ghost
- The Old White Lady with Many Stories
- Dance Hall Queens and Broadway Beauties
- Ben Johnson’s Last Trail Ride
- Henry Clay Hooker’s Turkeys
- Frank Reno Didn’t Get the Last Laugh
- Legendary Dishwasher
- Nevada’s Bonanza of History
- Little Gertie the Gold Dollar
- John Reno’s Biggest Mistake
- The True West January 2016 issue published a photo of John Slaughter and several of his cowboys. Which one was his foreman at the San Bernardino Ranch?
- Deadlines Missed
- Thankfully, She was a Song Catcher
- Rocky Mountain Cloak and Dagger
- A Drunken Debacle
- Assault on the Deadwood Stage
- The Bandit Queen
- She Cradled Lincoln’s Head
- Getting Rich Behind a Counter
- The Amazon of the Border
- Why did the great artist Charlie Russell wear a red sash?
- The Camp Grant Massacre
- Cornish Miners in the West
- The Perfect Name for a Madam
- Happy Jack Morco
- Cowboy Lingo
- Nourishment at the Homestead
- Danger in the Mines
- Arizona’s Confederate Governor
- Russian Bill Swings at Shakespeare
- Bringing the American West to Life
- House of the Rising Sun – A Blood Red Sun
- Eva Dugan’s Noose
- Butch Cassidy’s Castle
- How come Arizona never extradited Wyatt Earp for the Vendetta Ride killings?