In the last years of his life, Wild Bill Hickok had eye problems.  His eyesight was fading, he was sensitive to light, and there was irritation and...

In the opening sequence of the classic Western One Upon A Time In The West there are three gunmen who show up at the train station. “Stony” (Woody...

The other day a True West reader mentioned that he’d read a story concerning claiming Buffalo Bill, hired a young trick shooter named Flo Ziegfield,...

Most are familiar with Buffalo Hump in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. He was a fictional character but there really was a Buffalo Hump. His name...

Being captured didn’t faze train robber Rube Burrow.  On October 9, 1890 he was grabbed by two black men, Jesse Hildreth and Frank Marshall, when...

Curly Bill Brocius figured prominently in the outlawry along the Mexican border in the early 1880s.  He was personally responsible for rustling...

For Charles Cooper, being a friend of Chunk Colbert didn’t turn out well.  The two were eating with Clay Allison at Cimarron, New Mexico Territory’s...

Several years ago, I read an article written by Maurice Kildare about the Bisbee Massacre in which he stated that the men hanged for it were not the...

Bud Ballew (left in photo) was an Oklahoma lawman and gunfighter with numerous notches in his gun.  He was known as a tough customer—something...

The first hanging in Arizona’s Navajo County was going to be stylish.  Sheriff F.J. Waltron (who doubled as a teacher and editor) sent out bordered...