Texas Ranger Bass Outlaw let his bad habits get the best of him in 1893. He was temporarily in charge of D Company when he went to the Buckhorn...
Drinking And Gambling: A Bad Mix Ranger Outlaw learned the hard way.
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Hanky-Panky And The Rope Two killers of two husbands got two nooses for their trouble.
Albert O’Dell and James Lamb were itinerant farmworkers near Lebanon, Indian Territory in 1886. Strangely, they took the wives of their two...
Picked The Wrong Man A killer for hire had the tables turned.
Bill Earhart was a shootist who helped out “Killin’” Jim Miller on occasion—either as a lookout or assassin for hire. Miller wanted him and a cohort...
A Clean Slate Frank Canton wanted a pardon for his crimes—or else.
Former lawman Frank Canton was seeking a pardon for crimes—murder, rustling, robbery—that he’d committed in Texas in the 1870s under the name Joe...
Losing Control Lawman Frank Canton fell off the wagon—literally.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Frank Canton had some moments of embarrassment. That included July 9, 1896, when he was transporting three prisoners to jail in...
No Craven Coward Frank Canton showed guts in facing down Ben Cravens.
Lawman Frank Canton was a lot of things—but he certainly had guts. It was May 1894, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Canton was tracking career criminal Ben...
America’s First Gold Rush The First Gold Rush in American history wasn’t at Sutter’s Mill in the Sierra Nevada as most think, it took place near Charlotte, South Carolina in 1799.
The First Gold Rush in American history wasn’t at Sutter’s Mill in the Sierra Nevada as most think, it took place near Charlotte, South Carolina in...
New Doctor In Town Doctor Edward Waters first visitor was self-styled “Doctor” Hulling, also the town drunk...
Doctor Edward Waters arrived in the California Mother Lode town of Placerville and hung out his shingle. His first visitor was self-styled “Doctor”...
The Treacherous Murder Of Mangas Colorados Known as the single greatest leader of the Apache...
After coming under heavy gunfire from Membreno and Chiricahua Apaches under Mangas Colorados and Cochise at Apache Pass, on the evening of July...
Judge George Turner How did a chief justice of a Supreme Court fall from grace in such a short time?
When the Territory of Nevada was created in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed George Turner Territorial Chief Justice. Two years later...
Wyatt Earp: Good Guy Or Bad? “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for him and Doc Holliday. Why is he considered a great man today?”
A True West reader asked me the other day, “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for...
Two Proper Irish Gentlemen John Mackay and Jack O’Brian
The Comstock Lode produced over 400 million dollars over the next thirty years and produced sixty millionaires, more than all the other mines in the...