April 3, 1908 Arizona Ranger Jeff Kidder rides into Naco, Arizona, to renew his commission. Upon finding out that Capt. Harry Wheeler is chasing...
Naco Debacle
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Slaughter
June 7, 1888 Daybreak finds Cochise County Sheriff Texas John Slaughter, his deputy Burt Alvord, Tesana Lucerio and an unnamed hispanic posse member...
How I Ruined My Kids for History
On car trips my father would only stop for gas, food, oil and maybe, open wounds. He hated to stop. And even though every summer we were on The...
Photos Don’t Lie!
We got a sneak peek at a great new photo book Historic Photos of Texas Lawmen by Mike Cox. Really some stunners in there. Great hats, great guns,...
Shoot-Out at Cottonwood Springs?
March 24, 1882 Wyatt Earp and his men take breakfast north of Contention, Arizona, on the San Pedro, then ride south toward the Babocomari River to...
Ketchum Goes Out Alone
August 16, 1899 Camped in a cave, two miles south of Folsom, New Mexico, Tom Ketchum waits until dark, then mounts up He leads a pack horse carrying...
Ike Bites Dust
June 1, 1887 Detective J.V. Brighton (who also holds a deputy sheriff’s commission) and two law officers have been on the trail of Ike Clanton and...
Chimney Wells Roundup
August 14, 1899 Near dusk, two members of the Wild Bunch, Will Carver and Elzy Lay, ride into Virgil Lusk’s cow camp near Chimney Wells, New Mexico,...
Brothers of Blood
July 10, 1881 The west Wisconsin town of Durand today is hot—the mercury hits triple digits. For the two Coleman brothers, it’s about to get a lot...
Devil Canyon Shoot-Out
APRIL 9, 1905 Navajo County Sheriff Chet Houck and his deputy Pete Pemberton hop a train from Winslow, Arizona, to Canyon Diablo (Devil Canyon), 26...
A Bullet for Your Troubles
October 03, 1900 It’s cold, just after dawn in Colorado’s Brown’s Park area when Isom Dart comes out of his cabin, dressed heavy with long...
Low Slung Guns
A popular misconception among some Old West re-enactors and wardrobe experts is that everyone wore their gun-belts high on their waists and that the...