Soapy Smith cashes in his chips. July 8, 1898, Jefferson Randolph Smith II--better known as conman Soapy Smith--is shot to death on a wharf in...
A Conman’s End Game
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Mark Boardman
A Second Chance
Outlaw Cole Younger gets out of prison. July 10, 1901. Outlaws Cole (photo) and Jim Younger are released from the Minnesota prison in Stillwater...
The Little Girl and the Outlaw
A chance encounter that later led to Cole Younger getting out of prison. In September 1876, preparing for the ill-fated Northfield Robbery, Cole...
Divorce by Death
Buckskin Frank Leslie took care of a husband the old fashioned way. June 22, 1880. Buckskin Frank Leslie is lounging on the porch of Tombstone's...
The Rangers’ Revenge
How lawmen got even for the death of their captain. June 30, 1893. Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones is killed in a fight with a Mexican rustling...
An Ignominous Way to Die
Gunfighter Clay Allison lost out to a wagon wheel. July 3, 1887. Shootist Clay Allison checks out. He accidentally falls off his moving wagon and a...
A Berry Gets Plucked
Outlaw Jim Berry doesn’t get far after a big haul. Jim Berry was a part of a robbery outfit (photo) that included Sam Bass and made its mark in the...
Butch’s Beginnings
Cassidy’s first bank robbery. Monday, June 24, 1889. Butch Cassidy and Matt Warner enter the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, Colorado at around...
In the Nick of Time
Outlaw Worthington got his comeuppance in New Mexico. June 18, 1878. A group of men spot outlaw Nick Worthington outside the St. James Hotel in...
No Winners
The fatal gunfight between an outlaw and a lawman. “Black Face’ Charlie Bryant—his face bears powder marks from a shooting scrape—was a member of...
Paying a Debt to Society
Lawman Henry Brown went to the dark society, with tragic results. Henry Newton Brown made his spurs by fighting in the Lincoln County War. By 1882,...
Nowhere to Run
Outlaw Nick Worthington comes to a bloody end. June 18, 1878. A group of men spot outlaw Nick Worthington outside the St. James Hotel in Cimarron,...