Fall 1878. Twenty-one-year-old Henry Brown took a job as a lawman in Tascosa, TX. It’s a bit of a change. He’d just finished a stint as one of Billy...
The Sole Survivor
Henry Brown is known as a pal of Billy the Kid, marshal of Caldwell, KS, and a robber killed by a lynch mob in 1884. He wrote a last letter to his...
Bad Bill Longley
Bill Longley has been called one of the deadliest of gunfighters, unpredictable, ruthless and quick with both his gun and temper. His ambition to be...
Burial Site: Battle of the Alamo
My grandma, Rosa Trimble, was a great storyteller. The Trimble’s came to Texas around 1840 and settled around San Antonio. She was an Edwards and...
Guns of the Gunfighters at the O.K. Corral
The question frequently comes up, are the guns used by the participants at the Gunfight behind the O.K. Corral in museums or in the hands of private...
American Plains Artists Exhibiting at San Angelo’s Fort Concho
The special summer show from the American Plains Artists (APA) group opens at Fort Concho’s Barracks 6 with an evening program on Thursday, June 27...
Never Going Home
Arch Wolfe was just 18 when he holed up with kinsman Ned Christie in the latter’s cabin in Indian Territory in 1892. Christie was killed by a posse...
A Botched Execution
Silon Lewis was the last man executed for murder under Choctaw law. But the November 4, 1894 execution didn’t go very well. The attending physician...
Burnin’ Love
April 25, 1896. Dance hall girl Jennie Larue and her boyfriend Otto Floto get into a fight in Cripple Creek, Colorado's red light district. A gas...
Young Doc Holliday was a Traveling Man
For a man who was slowly dying from consumption, Doc Holliday didn’t let any grass grow under his feet. He was diagnosed with the dreaded disease in...
George Washington Told a Lie
There are many strange tales of Lincoln, NM. In 1879, George Washington was allegedly shooting at a stray dog near the ruins of the McSween house...
Bad Luck Ranch
It just didn’t pay to own ranch land along the Feliz River in Lincoln County, NM. Robert Casey (photo) squatted on the land, building a dugout and...