And shots ring out. October 26, 1881. As the Earps near the Cow-boys in a Tombstone empty lot, Doc moves into the street, holding the shotgun Virgil...
The Street Fight Begins
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Marshall Trimble
Prelude to the Gunfight
The Earps and Cow-boys make their way to the empty lot… October 26, 1881. After being informed the Cow-boys are armed, Virgil Earp decides to make...
A Good Game Spoiled
The poker game prior to the OK Corral shootout. The night before the Tombstone “Street Fight,” several of the men involved the next...
Let’s Make a Deal
Wyatt Earp’s attempt to placate the Cow-boys falls apart. In 1881, Wells Fargo secretly gave Wyatt Earp a free hand to put an end to stage robberies...
The Power of the Cow-Boys
A group of rustlers ran rampant in Cochise County. Before the Earp brothers arrived in Tombstone in late 1879, the Cow-boys had been rustling...
The Million Dollar Hangover
A rich discovery and the name of a new town. The story goes that prospector Charlie McMillan was a man strongly addicted to ardent spirits. One...
The Rendezvous
The great gatherings of the fur trappers Unique to the American trapping industry was the rendezvous system, dreamed and schemed by William Ashley...
Stubborn as a Mule
How Joe Felmer got even with some thieving Apache. The legends say Joe Felmer was an Army scout at Camp Grant. Some pesky Apaches had been sneaking...
One Good Turn
A Merry Christmas at Ft.Yuma In 1849, Army engineer Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple rescued a young Yuma Indian girl who’d been lost in the desert of...
The Nogales Children’s Christmas of 1929
Mexican border “adjusted” to accommodate children at Christmas. On December 25, 1929, the U.S.-Mexican border was moved two blocks north to include...
A Thing of Beauty Unsurpassed A cowboy tribute to the Christmas tree.
A cowboy tribute to the Christmas tree. A Christmas Tree was written by the late, great cowboy poet Baxter Black. And it’s very appropriate for this...
Brothers in Arms, Henry Rifles and Tepees
When did the Army invert its chevrons and why was that done? Bob Rooks (Fort Worth, Texas) Chevrons are the stripes on a uniform arm that denote...