James King of William (he gave himself the last part of that name to distinguish himself from other James Kings) was a crusading newspaper editor in...

James King of William (he gave himself the last part of that name to distinguish himself from other James Kings) was a crusading newspaper editor in...
Anthony Bewley was a Methodist pastor south of Ft. Worth just before the Civil War. He was outspokenly abolitionist, and that angered his...
Milton Duffield was a seasoned gunman, claiming his first victim in 1854. That reputation must have helped him in some ways; in 1863, he was...
Ed Schieffelin must have been a brave man. In 1877, he set up shop at the Brunckow Cabin, a few miles southwest of the town he would help found and...
Frederick Brunckow met his end while trying to develop mining in southeast Arizona. The German native claimed a mine near modern-day Tombstone in...
Marion Turner was a Lincoln County (NM) deputy and a gunman for the Murphy-Dolan faction. When the Battle of Lincoln broke out in July 1878, Turner...
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 in Tascosa, Texas, in the...
The Seven Rivers Warriors started off as a group of small ranchers around Lincoln County, NM. But when the Lincoln County War broke out, they went...
Frank McNab (or MacNab) was second in command of The Regulators, the Lincoln County (NM) outfit that tried to settle the score for the murder of...
Mangas Coloradas was a great Apache chief, and he felt betrayed by the U.S. Settlers and miners had been taking over Apache land in the Southwest,...
Hispanics and Puebloans in present day New Mexico were concerned in 1847. The US had just taken over the region, and the natives feared they would...
March 19, 1840. A contingent of Comanches came to San Antonio’s Council House for a peace conference with Texian authorities. But things went...