Most are familiar with Buffalo Hump in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. He was a fictional character but there really was…
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A Short and Not-So-Sweet Career Oliver Yantis’ ride on the outlaw trail wasn’t very smooth.
Oliver Yantis was not the most successful outlaw. He was one of the first members of the Bill Doolin Gang. Just a week…
A Laughing Matter? Outlaw Rube Burrow had fun when he was captured.
Being captured didn’t faze train robber Rube Burrow. On October 9, 1890 he was grabbed by two black men, Jesse Hildreth…
Six Guns Along the Mexican Border Curly Bill Brocius figured prominently in the outlawry along the Mexican border in the early 1880s.
Curly Bill Brocius figured prominently in the outlawry along the Mexican border in the early 1880s. He was personally r…
Death by Association Charles Cooper shouldn’t have seen a gunfight.
For Charles Cooper, being a friend of Chunk Colbert didn’t turn out well. The two were eating with Clay Allison at Cima…
Maurice Kildare and the 1883 Bisbee Massacre Physical evidence including an expensive gold watch and chain linked the men to the crime.
Several years ago, I read an article written by Maurice Kildare about the Bisbee Massacre in which he stated that the me…
Who Assassinated Pat Garrett? Pat Garrett’s assassination remains a convoluted point of controversy that reads like an Agatha Christie mystery.
Pat Garrett’s assassination remains a convoluted point of controversy that reads like an Agatha Christie mystery. Was it…
Friends unto Death One outlaw, one lawman, both killed.
William Collins was an associate of Sam Bass, and a member of the Joel Collins (his brother) Gang (photo) that held up a…
Was the Notorious Bad Guy Davy Crockett the Grandson of Davy Crockett? If grandpa had been around he would have tanned his britches!
Yep, he sure was Davy’s grandson but if grandpa had been around he would have tanned his britches. David Crockett,…
A Gunfight between Lawmen Bud Ballew got the better of Dow Baziel.
Bud Ballew (left in photo) was an Oklahoma lawman and gunfighter with numerous notches in his gun. He was known as a to…