Rancher and gunman Mannen Clements was having some drinks in a Ballinger, Texas bar on March 29, 1887. His drinking companions were both local...
Getting Even Someone sought revenge for the death of Mannen Clements
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The Muleshoe Ranch The early history of the Old Muleshoe ranch reads like something out of a Louis L’Amour shoot ‘em up...
The early history of the Old Muleshoe ranch reads like something out of a Louis L’Amour shoot ‘em up. It was also the stuff that inspires a...
Battle Of The Wabash Or St. Clair’s Defeat Most don’t know that the Army’s worst defeat experienced at the hands of the Indians occurred eighty-five years prior to Custer’s Last Stand...
When most Americans think of the Indian Wars, names like Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Quanah Parker, Cochise and Geronimo immediately come...
A Forgotten Expedition? The Corps of Discovery almost faded into the mists
It’s considered one of the great exploration projects in United States history. The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery left Fort Dubois, Illinois...
The Pen Is Mightier…? Two Tombstone editors nearly had a duel.
It was almost a different kind of Tombstone gunfight. Sam Purdy, editor of The Epitaph, challenged Independent Editor Patrick Hamilton to a duel...
Should Have Done What He Was Told Captain Fetterman went his own way—and found disaster.
Captain William Fetterman disobeyed orders on Dec. 21, 1866. He took an 80-man detachment out of Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, to rescue a group...
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Once and for All: Did Doc Holliday Kill Johnny Ringo, or Not? Facebook LIVE with Bob Boze Bell
Join Bob Boze Bell on Facebook and YouTube LIVE May 19th at 5pm PDT to learn the mysterious circumstances behind Johnny Ringo's end that may point...
Apache Scouts The longer we knew the Apache scouts, the better we liked them. They were wilder and more suspicious than the Pimas and Maricopas, but far more reliable, and endowed with a greater amount of courage and daring...
The Apache never saw themselves as a political unit. They were families, clans and bands. Being matrilineal, chiefs often united bands by marriage. ...
A “Gallant” Gesture Goes Too Far Charles Cora stood up for his girlfriend—and hanged.
Gambler Charles Cora had taken prostitute Arrabella Ryan as his mistress in San Francisco in 1855. U.S. Marshal William Richardson made an insulting...
Small Town Movie Theaters In The 1940s What were small town movie theaters like in the 1940s during the heyday of B-Westerns?
What were small town movie theaters like in the 1940s during the heyday of B-Westerns? Remember this was before those little b/w television sets...
The Cartwright Cattle Company Most, when they hear the name, Cartwright Ranch, Pa, Little Joe and Hoss immediately come to mind but out in Cave Creek, Arizona the folks all know you’re talking about the real Cartwright Ranch, located just a few miles north of town...
Most, when they hear the name, Cartwright Ranch, Pa, Little Joe and Hoss immediately come to mind but out in Cave Creek, Arizona the folks all know...