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....

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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Consumption is an early term for tuberculosis. The victims were called “lungers.” Consumption was a dreaded disease, contagious and was often fatal....
The arrival of Mormon colonists from Utah in 1876 heralded the first permanent Anglo-American settlements in northern Arizona. Even though cattle...
The building of the transcontinental railroad along the 32nd Parallel was a major milestone in Arizona history. Up to then the main means of...
Nathaniel “Texas Jack” Reed was an outlaw in the Oklahoma and Indian territories in the 1880s and ‘90s. He was involved a handful of train...
When discussing the James-Younger Gang at the ill-fated Northfield Bank Robbery, the question often comes up, “Who shot banker Joe Heywood, Frank or...
Charlie Le Flore (also Laflore) was captain of Indian police, deputy US marshal and special agent for the Missour, Kansas and Texas Railroad—all at...