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Shaman or Medicine Men
I’ve been asked a number of times, “Where would Geronimo or Sitting Bull have learned their trade as a medicine man. How did they get this position?...
The End for Big Nose George
Parrott couldn’t fly at the end of a rope. Big Nose George Parrott ran with a gang of cutthroats and robbers in 1870s Wyoming. After bragging about...
A Revolt in New Mexico
Indians rise up against U.S. occupiers. The Taos Revolt was an uprising by Hispano and Puebloan groups against the United States during the Mexican...
Massacre at Bloody Island
The U.S. army avenges the deaths of two slaveholders. Northern California’s Bloody Island Massacre is one that is not mentioned much in the history...
Rascals of Tombstone: Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne
After running away from the gunfight in the vacant lot near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ike Clanton made a desperate attempt to get the Earp’s and...
Tumbleweed Wagons
They called them “tumbleweed wagons” because like their namesake, the Russian thistle, they seemed to wander aimlessly across the territory picking...
Mountain Men
The first white men to venture “across the wide Missouri” were awed by the breathtaking sight of the majestic Rocky Mountains that loomed on the...
Another Notch for Sundance
The Wild Bunch rider killed a policeman in South America. It appears that Butch Cassidy (seated right) and the Sundance Kid (seated left) got into...
Tom Fitch and the Pleasant Valley War
The famed attorney got an accused murderer off. Attorney Tom Fitch is best known for defending the Earps and Doc Holliday at the so-called OK Corral...
Fake News on Doc Holliday
Papers said he died in a Texas gunfight. It’s a lesser-known gunfight in the life of Doc Holliday. He was gambling in the West Texas town of...
Demise of the Wild Bunch
By the early 1900s, the law was closing in and Butch Cassidy was beginning to feel the pressure. The cattle industry was big in Argentina and with...