Are the guns used by the participants at the Gunfight Near the OK Corral in Museums or in the hands of private collectors? There have been many guns...
Guns of the Gunfighters at OK Corral
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Resisting Arrest Nicholas Aragon proved deadly to two Lincoln County lawmen.
Lincoln County (NM) lawmen had no idea what they were getting themselves into when they chased after rustler Nicholas Aragon in the fall of 1894. He...
Just Around the Corner An Oklahoma saloon served up liquor and death.
The Corner Saloon was located just outside of Ada, Oklahoma in the 1890s. Owned by Joe Allen and Jesse West, it was a bad place. There were claims...
A Rare Find Researchers discover a document related to Pat Garrett’s death.
Four years ago, in 2017, Dona Ana County (NM) researchers found a remarkable document in a box of old records. It was a coroner’s jury report from...
The Tombstone Rangers Ride Again
In April 1883, almost two years after the Tombstone Rangers hapless trek into Apacheria, the citizens, goaded by the local press again...
My Darling Clementine
Many folks don’t understand why John Ford’s 1946 My Darling Clementine remains one of the greatest western movies of all time. There's hardly...
Could the Rancher and the Farmer be Friends?
Many westerns movies base their story line on ranch wars or ranchers wanting to get rid of nesters squatting on their grazing lands. Did these...
A New Leaf A Billy the Kid pal who went straight…
Billy Wilson rode with Billy the Kid—was arrested with him by Pat Garrett at Stinking Springs in December 1880. He later went straight, in Texas,...
A Slogan for the Ages The story behind “20 Mule Team Borax.”
Frank Smith (photo) was in his 20s when he discovered large deposits of borax in Nevada. He soon became a millionaire, with operations moving...
The Man with the Plan Bennett Young set the standard for bank robberies.
Lt. Bennett Young drew the blueprint for Old West bank robberies—far from the West. In October 1864, he and 20 Confederate soldiers snuck into St....
The Last Campaign of Lt. Howard Cushing
There were many brave officers in the Frontier Army during the darkest days of the Apache campaigns in the late 1860s and early 1870s but none...
Bowie Knives
Several movies were made in the 1950s, about the Alamo and Jim Bowie. The lyrics of a popular song were, “What a Man was six feet six Jim Bowie, Big...