The nation’s last stagecoach robbery took place on December 5, 1916, at Nevada’s Jarbidge Canyon. Calling it a “stagecoach” robbery is an...
The Last Stage Robbery?
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Mark Boardman
Hardin’s Disputed Death
This we know: John Selman killed John Wesley Hardin at El Paso’s Acme Saloon on August 19, 1895. Tradition says Selman shot him in the back of the...
Texas Ranger Ben “Dad” Pennington
Ben “Dad” Pennington was 56 when he became a Texas Ranger in 1917. A bit old, perhaps, but Pennington had 20 years of law enforcement experience...
Brown Bowen
A dead drunk Thomas Haldeman went to sleep under a tree near Nopal, Texas on December 17, 1872. He never woke up. Brown Bowen, brother-in-law of...
Granville Stuart: Gentleman Vigilante
Call Granville Stuart the gentleman vigilante. He was a prominent rancher, merchant and civic leader in Montana, starting in the early 1860s. He...
John Larn
John Larn was a vigilante leader and lawman in Shackleford, Texas in the mid-1870s. But that was a front. Larn and his buddy John Selman rustled...
Indiana’s Reno Gang
Indiana’s Reno Gang carried out a crime wave across the Midwest in the years after the Civil War. Train robbery, counterfeiting, burglary and...
Michael Gambon’s Western Moment
Michael Gambon is best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in six of the Harry Potter movies. But in 2003, the year before he took over that role,...
Juanita Brooks
Historian Juanita Brooks had quite the history herself. Born in 1898 and educated at both Brigham Young and Columbia Universities, she began...
Inspired by Deadly Work
In spring 1913, famed writer Zane Grey spent several days with Texas Rangers in El Paso. Grey heard plenty of stories that he incorporated into his...
Forgotten Old West Character: Bose Ikard
Bose Ikard is a forgotten Old West characters—and shouldn’t be. Born a slave in Mississippi in 1843, Ikard’s owner moved his operation to Texas in...
The Coward of Little Big Horn
Marcus Reno’s historical reputation is: coward. He was a man who ran at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, leaving Lt. Col. George Custer and the...