David Janin was one of the foremost mining engineers in the United States and his presence should have given credibility to the scheme. However, he...
The Great Diamond Hoax Part II
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John Doherty John Doherty was in his home office when an assassin shot and killed him by firing through a window. For some time, the case was cold with no suspects...
John Doherty was the former sheriff of Mora County, New Mexico. On December 9, 1893, he was in his home office when an assassin shot and killed him...
James Allen Working as a waiter, he shot to death a customer over an order of breakfast eggs...
James Allen is best known for a March 2, 1880 incident at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Working as a waiter, he shot to death a...
J.J. Webb Marshall of Las Vegas and member of the Dodge City Gang
J.J. Webb was marshal of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1880. He was also a member of the Dodge City Gang which basically ran the town—often in...
Tom Bullock’s Railroad Tom Bullock was a gregarious, smooth-talking promoter. He'd been a bartender Prescott's Whiskey Row before heading to New York where he made a fortune building street railways...
Tom Bullock was a gregarious, smooth-talking promoter. He'd been a bartender Prescott's Whiskey Row before heading to New York where he made a...
Apache Agent Believing that the Indians would respond better if they were able to govern themselves, he organized a police force of Apache...
During the mid-1870s the federal government began using churches to staff the reservations in Arizona. The two most successful converters, the...
The Great Diamond Hoax Part I
Of all the great schemes and scams during late nineteenth century, none was more bizarre than one perpetrated by a couple of cousins from Kentucky...
Disgrace Leads To Change An expulsion led a frontier doctor in a new and important direction.
Dr. George Goodfellow is known for being the Tombstone doctor who treated Morgan and Virgil Earp after they were wounded at the OK Corral shootout. ...
The Calm Before Storms Bat Masterson tried to stop a gunfight…
Bat Masterson tried to get between Charlie Storms and Luke Short and stop a gunfight—and failed. Storms and Short, both gamblers, got into an...
Souvenir Of A Gunman Did Charlie Storms get Wild Bill’s pistol?
Charlie Storms was a well-known gambler who frequented some of the wildest of the Wild West towns after the Civil War. In fact, Storms met his end...
The Storied Sisters Of St. Joseph The group included sisters, Ambrosia Arnichaud, Hyacinth Blane, Emerentia Bounefoy, Monica Corrigan, Maximus Croisat, Martha Peters and Euphrasia Suchet...
In the years following the Mexican War the French Diocese in St. Louis replaced the Mexican in New Mexico and John Baptiste Lamy was named bishop....
Marion Morrison Becomes John Wayne Marion Michael Morrison, was named for his grandfather Marion Mitchell Morrison, a Civil War veteran...
Marion Michael Morrison, was named for his grandfather Marion Mitchell Morrison, a Civil War veteran. They were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent. ...