Joshua Norton spent more than 30 years in San Francisco, from 1849 to 1880, and for most of them he was the self-proclai…
Justice for a Journalist Vigilantes closed the case of a California killer.
James King of William (he gave himself the last part of that name to distinguish himself from other James Kings) was a c…
A Warning for Abolitionists A Methodist pastor paid for his views on slavery.
Anthony Bewley was a Methodist pastor south of Ft. Worth just before the Civil War. He was outspokenly abolitionist, an…
Arizona’s First US Marshal Milton Duffield was a gunman who came to a tragic end.
Milton Duffield was a seasoned gunman, claiming his first victim in 1854. That reputation must have helped him in some …
Setting up Shop Ed Schieffelin’s early base of operations was the Brunckow Cabin.
Ed Schieffelin must have been a brave man. In 1877, he set up shop at the Brunckow Cabin, a few miles southwest of the …
The Deadly Cabin Many people were killed at the Brunckow place.
Frederick Brunckow met his end while trying to develop mining in southeast Arizona. The German native claimed a mine ne…
Crime Pays? A Lincoln County warrior later struck it rich.
Marion Turner was a Lincoln County (NM) deputy and a gunman for the Murphy-Dolan faction. When the Battle of Lincoln br…
The Big Fight A deadly Texas shootout is little remembered today.
It takes something for an Old West shootout to be called “The Big Fight.” That’s the handle they stuck on a free-for-all…
Picking up the Guns The Seven Rivers Warriors turned violent in Lincoln County.
The Seven Rivers Warriors started off as a group of small ranchers around Lincoln County, NM. But when the Lincoln Count…
A Killer Gets His Frank McNab’s violent streak was turned on him.
Frank McNab (or MacNab) was second in command of The Regulators, the Lincoln County (NM) outfit that tried to settle the…