Boone Helm was an ingrate—in addition to being a serial killer, a cannibal, and other bad things. In the early 1860s, Helm was in a party headed to...
Thanks, But No Thanks Boone Helm didn’t know the meaning of gratitude.
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Salting A Gold Mine The game of buying and selling a worthless mine could conceivably become a matter of who could outwit whom...
Mining Camp author Brete Harte wrote: "The ways of a man with a maid are strange, but tame, when compared to a man with a mine when buying or...
Hold That Day A coincidence involves the deaths of three noted shootists.
There are some interesting coincidences in the Old West. In 1894, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Outlaw was tearing up an El Paso brothel. Constable...
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LANDSCAPES, LEGENDS AND LORE. THE REST IS HISTORY IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA. Visit the website at SouthwestMT.com A visit to Southwest Montana is more...
The Sour Partnership Jesse West decided to end a partnership permanently.
Jesse West was a well-to-do businessman and rancher in Texas and Oklahoma. He and Joe Allen had been partners with Gus Bobbitt in several ventures....
Documents Done Wrong Important New Mexico papers were going to waste, until…
Lew Wallace came to Santa Fe in 1878 to serve as New Mexico territorial governor. He moved into the Palace of Governors, which was in pretty bad...
The Hell-raising Horrells The clan was too much for Lampasas lawmen.
The Horrell brothers were raising hell around Lampasas, Texas in 1873. In January, they shot and killed the county sheriff. On March 19, seven...
The Under The Bed Shootout A Tombstone fight like no other.
A 1908 gunfight was one of the most unusual in Tombstone’s history. On June 20, Marcello Mendez shot a woman three times in a local house. The...
A Full Plate Lawman Jacob Owens had a lot going—but not much success.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Jacob Owens had a busy year. On April 6, 1871 he arrested Wyatt Earp in the Cherokee Nation for stealing horses. Earp later...
The Babocomari Ranch Situated along the creek for some twenty miles and bearing the same name, the Babocomari was one of the most ideally situated of all the Mexican land grants...
Situated along the creek for some twenty miles and bearing the same name, the Babocomari was one of the most ideally situated of all the Mexican...
George Turnbull Cline In a family that produced some of the best cowboys that ever sat a saddle, one man achieved legendary status...
They used to say if you could hold a job cowboying in the Tonto Basin you could cowboy anywhere in the West. In 1874, the Christian Christopher...
Early California Gold Camps Those early California gold camps with their boardwalks and muddy streets, false-front buildings and tent dwellings were as vivacious at their names implied...
Those early California gold camps with their boardwalks and muddy streets, false-front buildings and tent dwellings were as vivacious at their names...