Last week at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, the True West team honored some deserving Western enthusiasts. To start the night,...
Gamblers And Guns Frank Loving and John Allen were determined to shoot it out.
Gamblers “Cockeyed” Frank Loving and John Allen had a history. They’d both been in Dodge City in the late 1870s; they were in Trinidad, Colorado in...
The Day The Rails Reached Phoenix The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running through Phoenix...
The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running...
Don’t Mess With The In-laws Cullen Baker angered the wrong folks.
Cullen Baker was a stone-cold killer, involved in dozens of deaths in Texas and Arkansas during the period before, during and after the Civil War. ...
Opium Dens in the West During the heyday of the Old West drugs were pretty common and legal.
During the heyday of the Old West drugs were pretty common and legal. The Chinese introduced opium when they came to America to build railroad...
No Surrender Feudist Henry Brooks went down fighting.
Henry Brooks (seated left) was called “Peg Leg” after losing a limb in a gunfight in 1884. He was an active participation in the Brooks-McFarland...
Was Wyatt Earp Carrying A Smith & Wesson American Revolver At The Ok Corral Gunfight? That story has been going around in some circles for years....
That story has been going around in some circles for years. Let me quote from the late Lee Silva, author of Wyatt Earp: A Biography of the Legend....
Red Cloud’s Prized Katana Sword This isn't a "tourist" or souvenir sword but one that is highly regarded and one that would have been worn in battle or during ceremonies...
There was an article written in 1987 by Dr. Peter Bleed, associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska who was chairman of JSSUS...
The Killing Of Pat Garrett Carl Adamson was the third man present when the lawman died.
Carl Adamson was a New Mexico rancher who agreed to buy property from legendary lawman Pat Garrett in 1908. In fact, Adamson was riding in a buggy...
Charlie Russell’s Red Sash Russell never wore a belt but wore the sash folded like one. Along with the bison skull, it became one of his distinctive trademarks...
Russell never wore a belt but wore the sash folded like one. Along with the bison skull, it became one of his distinctive trademarks. He began...
Garrett And Garner A friendship between the lawman and a future v.p.
In the early 1890s, more than a decade after killing Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett moved his family to Uvalde, Texas. He owned a ranch there and bred...
An Enchanting Song For New Mexico One of Pat Garrett’s children wrote the state song.
Pat Garrett left quite a legacy as a lawman in New Mexico and the killer of Billy the Kid. But he wasn’t the only member of the family to leave an...