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A Change of Heart

A Change of Heart

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...

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The Sole Survivor

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...

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Bad Bill Longley

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...

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Burial Site: Battle of the Alamo

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...

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Never Going Home

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...

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A Botched Execution

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...

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Burnin’ Love

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...

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Bad Luck Ranch

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...

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