Four outlaws stepped off the train. They were ready for a showdown, but High Noon was decades away. The lazy squeak of a distant windmill a reminder...
The Last Outlaw Town
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Going Behind the Scenes
With all of the articles we have done about Wyatt Earp over the years, you might think we could just slap a few anecdotes and photographs on the...
Wyatt Earp Returns Without a Horse
One of the longest posse chases in Arizona history came after the attempted robbery of the Benson Stage on March 15, 1881, when a large posse,...
Dancing With the Doc
In the classic Western movie Tombstone (1993) Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday, says to Johnny Ringo, “I’m your Huckleberry, that’s just my game.” Did...
Arizona’s Deadliest Address
On February 25, 1881, after an earlier altercation inside, faro dealer Luke Short, shot and killed fellow gambler Charley Storms outside the ...
A Short Storm
February 25, 1881 Charley Storms has been playing faro since last night...and losing. As an Arizona morning dawns, a broke and drunk Storms takes...
Billy’s Backyard Breakout Billy the Kid vs Peppin’s Posse
July 19, 1878 Fire is licking at the last room—Susan McSween’s kitchen. In this final refuge, her husband, Alexander, sits with his head in his...
Show Low vs a Straight Flush
Two ranchers, Corydon Cooley and Marion Clark, decided the valley they lived in wasn’t big enough for the both of them. They played a card game to...
Dust-Up in Delta
September 7, 1893 Not many folks are out and about on this stifling hot Thursday morning in Delta, Colorado. At 10:15 a.m., fifteen minutes after...
Is This a Photograph of Billy Playing Croquet?
This photo, found in a shoebox of tintypes at an antique store in Fresno, California, has caused quite a stir. The owner believes it was taken near...
Apache Endurance
Captured by Sonoran mercenaries near Esqueda, Sonora, Mexico (south of present-day Douglas, Arizona), in the mid-1860s, Dilcthe was sold into...
Whirlwind of the Prairies
As a renowned frontier scout, he was known as “Comanche Jack” and “Wildcat Jack.” The Comanches referred to him as “Whirlwind of the Prairies.” His...