Dick Lloyd paid the price for wrecking a poker contest. Dick Lloyd seemed to be attracted to violence. He was involved in troubles in New Mexico and...
Interrupting the Game
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A Ranger of Note
John B. Armstrong, on the scene of big arrests. John B. Armstrong was a remarkable lawman. As a Texas Ranger, he was tasked with controlling the...
Stop the Presses
A negative editorial set Clay Allison off. It was January 1876, and gunfighter Clay Allison was angry. The Cimarron News and Press had...
The Keys to the Kingdom
Dallas Stoudenmire and the keys to the El Paso jail… April 1881. Gunman Dallas Stoudenmire has just been named marshal of El Paso. He goes to get...
“I’m Over Here!”
The capture—er, surrender—of Sam Bass. In Texas, lawmen were on the lookout for robber Sam Bass in 1878. They finally found him, just outside the...
Observer to History
Soapy Smith and the demise of the Sam Bass Gang. The Sam Bass Gang had a budding outlaw in attendance when they attempted to rob the Williamson...
The Tables are Turned
Bad gambling drove Sam Bass to outlawry. Outlaw Sam Bass tried to head down the righteous path. In 1876, he and partner Joel Collins decided to...
Not-So Scared Straight
A sheriff’s failed attempt to turn Billy the Kid’s life around. Harvey Whitehill was the sheriff of Grant County, New Mexico Territory, at the time...
Blood Brothers
Billy the Kid’s sibling Joe went in a different direction. Joe McCarty/Antrim had one claim to fame: he was Billy the Kid’s brother (or...
No Son of Mine
The distant relationship of Billy the Kid and his step-father. William Henry Harrison Antrim is best known as the step-father of Billy the Kid. But...
Resenting the Chinese
White workers massacred Chinese at a Wyoming mining camp. American labor troubles turned inward at Rock Springs, Wyoming on September 2, 1885. The...
The Winner
Joseph Glidden’s invention won the West. In the fall of 1873, Joseph Glidden did what many farmers did and do: he went to the county fair. In this...