November 14, 1882. Buckskin Frank Leslie (photo), tending bar, throws Billy Claiborne out of Tombstone's Oriental Saloon for using abusive language....
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The Outlaw Trail
An outlaw trail ranged all the way from Canada to Mexico and Butch Cassidy knew the way like the back of his hand. He wasn’t wanted in a number of...
Stagecoach Travel
Stagecoach travel was no place for sissies. The Butterfield Overland Mail began its three-year 2,800 mile run from Tipton, Missouri to San Francisco...
Ben Johnson – Oklahoma Cowboy
Howard Hughes is credited with bringing Ben Johnson out to Hollywood from Oklahoma in the late 1930s and introducing him to director John Ford. An...
Sadie Earp
Sadie was already turning tricks when she was a young teenager. She was a free spirit who took up acting in a traveling show. There were few career...
Arkansas Tom
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory provided some of the West’s wildest history including one of its deadliest gunfights. The battle occurred on...
The Birth of the Horseless Carriage
“YOU ONLY HAVE TO FEED ‘EM WHEN YOU USE ‘EM” Prior to 1800 never has there been a period that experienced such dramatic changes as the 19th century....
The First Kill
John Wesley Hardin’s first victim may have been unarmed. November 1868--exact date unknown. John Wesley Hardin guns down a former slave called Maje...
A Brother Butts In
Another McLaury enters the murder trial after the OK Corral fight. November 4, 1881. Lawyer Will McLaury--the brother of Tom and Frank...
A Lonely End
Doc Holliday’s last days were sad and solitary. November 8, 1887. Doc Holliday succumbs to the ravages of tuberculosis and pneumonia (and hard...
Nogales, Oklahoma
In the mid-50's Hollywood came out to the historic San Rafael Ranch, east of Nogales and filmed the long-running Broadway Rogers and Hammerstein...
Pioneer Women
I used to perform the old folk song, “Waggoner’s Lad” and the first lines were “Hard luck is the fortune of all womenkind. They’re always...