April 16, 1881 Bat Masterson has just covered 1,100 miles, mostly by rail, to come to the aid of his estranged brother J…
Overkill! Bonnie & Clyde vs Frank Hamer & his posse.
It is a warm, muggy morning, as Clyde Barrow drives his stolen V-8 Ford towards Methvin’s place, which is a twenty-minut…
Christmas Road Trip
After Pat Garrett and his posse successfully captured Billy the Kid and three members of his gang at a place called Stin…
A Long and Twisted Trail The Byzantine Connections Between Pancho Villa, A Chicago reporter, Billy the Kid, Bonnie & Clyde and Brushy Bill.
When you tug at the threads of history you will find it connected to some pretty disparate events. For example: If the U…
Dead On Arrival
In the opening sequence of the classic Western One Upon A Time In The West there are three gunmen who show up at the tra…
Death at his Elbow The moral of this story is: Don’t take a drunk dentist to make an arrest.
If you took all the alcohol out of the Wild West era, you would certainly save a forest of trees, because all of the pri…
Under The Mistletoe
After being captured at Stinking Springs, Billy the Kid and his gang were taken to Fort Sumner, New Mexico where Billy w…
Snowstorm Ambush
Five outlaws rode out of a powder-blue fog on the night of December 19, 1880, straight into an ambush sprung by Sheriff-…
Doc Gets Hammered Doc Holliday vs Milt Joyce.
October 10, 1880 Two well-known sports, John Tyler and John Henry “Doc” Holliday, exchange harsh words while gambling in…
Dear Lew
Writing in red ink on ruled paper, Billy the Kid writes a letter to Lew Wallace, the governor of New Mexico.Written from…