Bill Cook grew up in the Indian Territory, where he also made a name for himself.  Born in 1873, he was busted for whiskey peddling in 1893.  After...

There was a real-life Grizzly Adams (but very different from the 1970s TV character).  John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1812 and went West...

Frank Waters’ 1960 book The Earp Brothers of Tombstone was once considered an authoritative look at the Earps, as seen through the eyes of Virgil’s...

Isaiah Dorman was the only black man killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  Dorman was an interpreter based on his years living with the...

The old TV show said “he wore a cane and derby hat.”  There’s plenty of photos of Bat Masterson wearing derbies—but none of him carrying a cane....

Long Haired Sam Brown led a gang in California’s Calaveras County in the 1850s.  He was dealing cards in 1855 when a Chilean miner grabbed someone...

Ed Scarborough isn’t as well-known as his lawman father George, who killed John Selman.  But Ed made his own mark.  He originally served as posse...

Boone May is not the biggest name in Old West annals, but he was a terror to outlaws in the 1870s—first as a shotgun messenger for the Cheyenne and...

Martin Mrose is best known for being a romantic rival of John Wesley Hardin—and of being killed in El Paso in 1895.  But a decade earlier, Mrose had...

There are a lot of Old West items floating around in the world of collectors—including the bullet that killed gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. Bill...

Martin Mrose is usually painted as an Old West rustler and thief who got what was coming to him in June of 1895.  Several lawmen filled him full of...