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...
The Great Diamond Hoax Part I
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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. ...
An Illegal Hanging The Silva Gang punished one of its own.
Patricio Maes was a member of the feared Silva Gang around Las Vegas, New Mexico in the early 1890s. He was arrested for horse theft and decided to...
Dr. Ben Green And Locoweed Ben had been around horses for fifty years and didn’t need to go to school to treat them...
Texas has produced many great storytellers and among them was Ben Green. He authored eight books including, Wild Cow Tales, Horse Trading and...
Don’t Mess With The Family Vicente Silva went too far when he turned on his kin.
Vicente Silva ran an organized crime outfit in Las Vegas, New Mexico in the 1880 and early 1890s. He covered that by putting on the appearance as a...
A Pal Of The Kid Jose Chavez y Chavez had a long career after riding with Billy.
Jose Chavez y Chavez rode with Billy the Kid and the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. Afterwards, he was involved in various criminal...
General George Crook And General Orders #10 General George Crook’s General Orders #10 was issued on November 12th, 1871, and it said in part that all roving bands of Indians would have to go at once to reservations or “be regarded as hostile and punished accordingly.”
General George Crook’s General Orders #10 was issued on November 12th, 1871, and it said in part that all roving bands of Indians would have to go...
Billy The Kid Outfoxes Joe Grant The Day Billy the Kid outfoxed a loud-mouth cowboy named Joe Grant occurred on January 10th, 1880 at Hargrove's saloon in Fort Sumner...
The Day Billy the Kid outfoxed a loud-mouth cowboy named Joe Grant occurred on January 10th, 1880 at Hargrove's saloon in Fort Sumner. Grant was his...