On a cold night in March of 1881 outlaws tried to rob the Tombstone to Benson stage. When one of the highwaymen yelled out "Halt!" the shotgun...
The Switch?
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Bob Boze Bell
Jar Head!
July 25, 1853 Saddling up at 2 a.m. Harry Love and his fellow California Rangers ride out of their rugged mountain camp and make their way to...
Kit Carson’s Horseback Duel
August 1835 The large French-Canadian trapper Joseph Chouinard is roaring drunk and on a day-long rampage at the annual trapper’s rendezvous on the...
Goodbye Gus
Just last year, in our April 2014 edition, we saluted Gus Walker on this page. Gus passed on November 23, 2014, after a brief illness. We called...
Cooke’s Canyon Ambush
August 27, 1861 The Ake-Wadsworth wagon train, en route from Tucson, Arizona, to Texas, leaves the abandoned Mimbres River Stage Station at first...
Six Classic Gunfights
When Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp utters his death-defying oath, “You tell ’em I’m coming, and Hell is coming with me, you hear!” with Biblical...
Wild Bill’s Last Fight
October 5, 1871 The summer cattle season is all but over, and Marshal Wild Bill Hickok has kept the peace in Abilene, Kansas—not an easy job. The...
A Dangerous and Bloody Citizen
March 10, 1864 Jack Slade, once the heroic peacekeeper of the Central Overland stagecoach line, is drunk and in an ugly mood on the main street of...
The Hat Rules
The right hat can make all the difference in a Western. Just think back to Robert Duvall’s pheasant-taking-over-his-head job he wore in 1972’s Joe...
The Blast at Steins Pass
December 7, 1897 Two cowboys, Dave Atkins and Ed Cullen, step inside the Steins Pass train depot in southwestern New Mexico a few minutes past 6...
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I loved to go to my grandmother’s house. She loved to cook, and she would sing and hum while she fried up the best potatoes and eggs you have ever...
Dalton Debacle
October 5, 1892 Five mounted men ride into Coffeyville, Kansas, from the west. It is around 9:30 a.m., and the streets are already filled with...