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Observer to History

Observer to History

Soapy Smith and the demise of the Sam Bass Gang. The Sam Bass Gang had a budding outlaw in attendance when they attempted to rob the Williamson...

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Captain Jack and the Modoc War

Captain Jack and the Modoc War

Because white settlers coveted their ancestral lands in 1864 the U.S. government pressed the two tribes to relinquish most of their territory in...

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Boot Hill

Boot Hill

Every town in the West had their "boothill" where people go for the “Long Sleep.” It's supposed to signify that the permanent residents of the...

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Babocomari Land Grant

Babocomari Land Grant

From 1821 until the Gadsden Purchase in 1854 the Mexican government sold and awarded granted land under Mexico’s 1824 Law of Colonization, it called...

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Not-So Scared Straight

Not-So Scared Straight

A sheriff’s failed attempt to turn Billy the Kid’s life around. Harvey Whitehill was the sheriff of Grant County, New Mexico Territory, at the time...

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Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

Billy the Kid’s sibling Joe went in a different direction. Joe McCarty/Antrim had one claim to fame: he was Billy the Kid’s brother (or...

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No Son of Mine

No Son of Mine

The distant relationship of Billy the Kid and his step-father. William Henry Harrison Antrim is best known as the step-father of Billy the Kid. But...

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Buckskin Frank Leslie

Buckskin Frank Leslie

To many, Buckskin Frank’s death is very much a mystery. Was it suicide or murder? The mystery of Buckskin Franks demise has been solved by authors...

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Border Security

Border Security

The history of border security predates Poncho Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico and General Pershing Punitive Expedition by several years....

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