October 26, 1881 Plus: Did Wyatt Earp Shoot Morgan in the Back? Come along,” says Virgil Earp, as he hands a Wells, Fargo & Co. shotgun to Doc...
Did Doc Holliday Start the Fight?
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Bob Boze Bell
Shot for Snoring?
August 7, 1871 Charles Couger is sitting on a bed reading a newspaper in the American House in Abilene, Kansas. Four shots are fired from outside...
Tragic Fight on the Devil’s Backbone
January 11, 1886 Captain Emmet Crawford is on the brink of victory. Yesterday, his punitive raiding party of three officers, one medic, one...
Love Will Find a Way
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...
The Kid’s First Kill
August 17, 1877 “I...called him a pimp.” It’s a Friday night, and young Henry Antrim is playing poker in George Atkins’s Cantina, just outside the...
The Battle of Battle Flat
Five American prospectors set up camp near the junction of Turkey Creek and Tuscumbia Creek in the rough Bradshaw Mountains, about 30 miles...
The Blevins Boys are in the House
Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens steps onto the porch of the Blevins home in Holbrook, Arizona, and knocks on the west-facing door. The Apache County...
The Blevins Boys are in the House
Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens steps onto the porch of the Blevins home in Holbrook, Arizona, and knocks on the west-facing door. The Apache County...
How Did Davy Really Die?
March 6, 1836 Just after midnight, Gen. Santa Anna orders his 2,064 troops to move toward their assault positions. Select soldados (soldiers)...
Cut the Tent, Unleash the War
January 28, 1861 John Ward rides 11 miles to petition Fort Buchanan commander Lt. Col. Pitcairn Morrison to help recover Ward’s stepson Felix, who...
Wham, Bam, Thank You Uncle Sam!
May 11, 1889 Riding in a dougherty (canopied ambulance), U.S. Army Paymaster Maj. Joseph Washington Wham (rhymes with bomb) is on his way to pay...
Uno, Dos, Tres!
October 28, 1884 While visiting Upper Frisco Plaza in western Socorro County, New Mexico, 19-year-old Elfego Baca is asked to arrest a drunken...