In 1857 the San Antonio and San Diego stagecoaches, better-known as the “Jackass Mail” because in the desert a few miles…
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The Train Robbers By the 1890's train robberies were big business in the West.
By the 1890’s train robberies were big business in the West. At one point trains were being robbed on an average o…
Hard Hearted A bank investor resented a fallen hero.
Adelbert Ames was a Union general and Civil War military governor of Mississippi. In 1876, he was also an investor in t…
Cavalry Horses Based on all the available evidence, the ordered “massacre” of some 500 cavalry mounts in 1934 never occurred.
In 1995, a movie with actor, Don Johnson, called In Pursuit of Honor. It tells the purported true story of Army in the …
‘Stone ‘Em!’ Citizens used any weapon available to fight the James-Younger Gang.
The James-Younger Gang was fighting for its life on September 7, 1876. The attempt to rob Northfield, MN’s First Nation…
Rough Justice A posseman was brutal in seeking info on the James-Younger Gang.
The James-Younger Gang was on the run after the Northfield robbery debacle, and posses were on the hunt. One group led …
Why Did Wagon Drivers Sit on the Right Side Did you know that today only about a quarter of the world drives on the left side of the road?
Traditionally buggy drivers sat on the right because most were right handed and the whip could be wielded without possib…
Raid at Ash Fork It is well known that nothing in New York, Chicago or anywhere else in the East is worse than the sporting district of Ash Fork.
June 1st, 1912 the Tucson Arizona Daily Star wrote: PRESCOTT – “Ash Fork is today as innocent as a newborn babe; she is …
Tombstone Tragedy John Clum found sadness in southeast Arizona.
John Clum is best known for his time in Tombstone as mayor and founding editor of The Tombstone Epitaph. But that perio…
Wes Hardin’s Child Bride: One of the Old West’s Shortest Marriages The marriage lasted only five days before the bride headed for home.
John Wesley Hardin was released on February 17th, 1894 after serving more than fifteen and a half years of a twenty-five…