David Janin was one of the foremost mining engineers in the United States and his presence should have given credibility to the scheme. However, he...
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David Janin was one of the foremost mining engineers in the United States and his presence should have given credibility to the scheme. However, he...
John Doherty was the former sheriff of Mora County, New Mexico. On December 9, 1893, he was in his home office when an assassin shot and killed him...
James Allen is best known for a March 2, 1880 incident at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Working as a waiter, he shot to death a...
J.J. Webb was marshal of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1880. He was also a member of the Dodge City Gang which basically ran the town—often in...
Tom Bullock was a gregarious, smooth-talking promoter. He'd been a bartender Prescott's Whiskey Row before heading to New York where he made a...
During the mid-1870s the federal government began using churches to staff the reservations in Arizona. The two most successful converters, the...
Of all the great schemes and scams during late nineteenth century, none was more bizarre than one perpetrated by a couple of cousins from Kentucky...
The landscape between Yellowstone and Glacier national parks embodies all the best of Big Sky Country. Around every bend lies another treasure or a...
Dr. George Goodfellow is known for being the Tombstone doctor who treated Morgan and Virgil Earp after they were wounded at the OK Corral shootout. ...
Bat Masterson tried to get between Charlie Storms and Luke Short and stop a gunfight—and failed. Storms and Short, both gamblers, got into an...
Charlie Storms was a well-known gambler who frequented some of the wildest of the Wild West towns after the Civil War. In fact, Storms met his end...
In the years following the Mexican War the French Diocese in St. Louis replaced the Mexican in New Mexico and John Baptiste Lamy was named bishop....