The Northern Paiute medicine man Wovoka healed people and brought rain to parched lands. People listened to his prediction that 1891 would bring...
Wovoka, Medicine Man
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Mark Boardman
A Fatal Sweet Tooth
Texas Ranger James Coryell and two compatriots headed out from Fort Milam (near Waco) on May 27, 1837 and found a bee tree about a mile away. They...
Clell Miller’s Bones
Outlaw Clell Miller was killed in the infamous James-Younger Gang robbery at Northfield, MN on September 7, 1876. What happened to his body is...
Allan Pinkerton Lied
The great detective said that he and six associates kidnapped outlaw John Reno from a Seymour, IN train depot in November 1867. The lawmen pulled...
The Horrell Brothers’ Revenge
December 20, 1873. The Horrell brothers wanted revenge for the killing of their brother Ben. So they and some 20 others attacked a Mexican wedding...
The Last Train Holdup in Texas
Willis Newton thought robbing a train would be easier than picking cotton. So he and a pal called Red stuck up the Southern Pacific just outside...
Mannie Clements Found Out that Dead Men Tell no Tales
The cousin of John Wesley Hardin and brother-in-law of assassin Jim Miller was involved in an El Paso-based organized crime ring. Down on his luck,...
Death in the Mississippi
The end of wars does not always mean the end of death and destruction. The Sultana tragedy proved that. In April 1865, Robert E. Lee had...
The Lynching of Red Yeager
The Montana Vigilantes, led by James Williams (pictured on the left) lynched Red Yeager in December 1863. Supposedly, he had warned an outlaw that...
Did John Wesley Hardin get the drop on Wild Bill Hickok?
That’s a legend spread by Hardin in his 1896 autobiography. The event supposedly happened in Abilene, KS in 1871. Hardin biographers Chuck Parsons...
Libbie Custer on the Big Screen
If you happen to see a 1926 silent movie called The Pottery Maker—a how-to-throw-a-pot flick—check out the elderly woman in black. She’s no actress,...
The Murder of Andrew Trew Blachly
Banker Andrew Trew Blachly was murdered during a holdup in Delta, CO in 1893. Such deaths often destroyed families—but not his. His widow Dellie...