Where can I find the graves of Johnny Ringo, Big Nose Kate, Mattie Blaylock and Commodore Perry Owens? Tina McGinity Sun City, Arizona Their bodies are all buried in Arizona. Johnny Ringo is buried along Turkey Creek, on the western slope of the Chiricahua Mountains. Mary Kate Cummins, a.k.a. Big Nose Kate, died at the Pioneers Home in Prescott and is buried there, not far from Johnny Behan’s son Albert. Mattie Blaylock is buried in an unmarked grave, near the remains of Pinal, on the north

July 2005
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- Death Rides a White-Faced Horse
- So-called Cattle Kate Rises from Rubbish
- More than Just a Muse
- Frontier Women at Arms
- Hollywood’s “5-in-1” Movie Blank
- More Bucks and Other Changes
- West Texas in the Daylight
- Cheyenne Breakout
- Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers
- Old West Signs
- Genuine Cowboys Captured Alive
- Under normal conditions, how fast would a stagecoach move over flat country?
- Did Wyatt and Josephine Earp have any children?
- Where can I find the graves of Johnny Ringo, Big Nose Kate, Mattie Blaylock and Commodore Perry Owens?
- In my senior year of high school, I wrote a paper on outlaws and gunmen. One was shot in the back by a Frenchman. Do you know who it was?
- Lists of Plains Indian property captured by the army in the 1860-70s often mention “crowbars.” Why would the Plains Indians, who I thought travelled light, have crowbars?
- Why do almost all the Old West characters wear handkerchiefs around their necks in TV shows and movies?
- Death Rides a White Horse