July 14, 1881 Billy the Kid vs. Pat Garrett Bad Moon Rising Rising at dawn, Garrett, Poe and McKinney ride “up into the hills” and scan the...
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Bob Boze Bell
The Six-Million-Dollar Gun
The real story behind Pat Garrett’s infamous pistol that killed Billy the Kid In the fall of 1880, Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett was given his marching...
El Chivato Gets His Due
The Hispanic version of the Billy the Kid story has finally arrived three decades after it was predicted. Back in 1991, before my...
Clash of the Mad Madams
Alice Abbott vs. Etta Clark The War Over Beautiful, Busty Bessie Colvin April 18, 1886 The beautiful Bessie Colvin is fed up. After a year of...
My Stage Partners
Fred Nolan and Robert Utley could riff with the best of them. In April of 2012, I was giving a history talk in a tent on the concourse of Ruidoso...
The Tale of the Empty Chamber
Billy the Kid vs. Joe Grant - An Eyewitness Revelation January 10, 1880 Bob Hargrove’s saloon in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, is packed with...
Crazy Hunt
Our team’s quest to capture Crazy Horse’s visage was a bear. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse. Yes, there are several...
Battle of the Plaza
Bat Masterson vs. Peacock & Updegraff Things Go Lickety-Bang! Bullets Careen into the Long Branch Traveling mostly by rail, Bat Masterson...
Ditch the Derby
One of the problems Bat Masterson has in terms of his Old West legend is he is typecast as a city slicker, always wearing a derby. But the real Bat...
Adair Before They Die
July 15, 1892 The Dalton Gang vs Katy Railroad Guards The Last Successful Raid of the Daltons Turns Tragic Riding eight strong, the Dalton...
Gobsmacked!
Thanks to the late, great Gus Walker (“The Mapinator”), you are about to experience the very best step by step, blow-by-blow maps and visuals...
A Continuous Picnic Goes South
– Illustrations by Bob Boze Bell – Like so many bad trips, this one started out as a fun adventure. The so-called Brewster wagon train departed...