Phin Clanton was the oldest of the Clanton boys. He managed to avoid the notoriety of his brothers Ike and Billy—mostly because he wasn’t at the OK...
A Lesser Known Bad Man
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The Daltons and the James-Younger Gang: How Much did they Take?
It’s estimated the James-Younger gang took in about $200,000 during a fifteen-year career. The Younger brothers were captured after Northfield in...
Falsely Accused
It was 1885, and Cow-boys Ike and Phin Clanton were living in Apache County, AZ, raising cattle and goats. On December 27, allegedly, several men...
A Cow-Boy in Retirement
Pete Spence is best known for his time as a Cow-boy in the Tombstone time of troubles. He may have been involved in the shooting of Virgil Earp and...
Snowstorm Ambush
Five outlaws rode out of a powder-blue fog on the night of December 19, 1880, straight into an ambush sprung by Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett. As Billy...
Robbing Trains Ain’t Rocket Science
Not everyone was cut out to be a train robber as it did require a certain amount of talent. A couple of Cochise County cowboys-turned-train robbers...
Hollywood Jails and the Real Deal
Hollywood movie sets were built pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol or...
The Tale of Goldfield
Goldfield, NV was one of the great boomtowns of the early 1900s. Gold was discovered in 1902. Within four years, it had 30,000 residents—including...
Billy, Bat and Temple Houston
A tale is told that Billy the Kid along with a few of his Regulators raided a ranch near Lincoln and rustled some livestock. They drove them over to...
The Wrong Men
The posse rode out of Price, UT in May 1898. They had reports that Butch Cassidy and members of the Wild Bunch were camped nearby. Exact details...
The Lawman and the Attorney
Jack Watson was an undercover lawman and JW Warf the prosecutor in Carbon County, UT. In 1898, they even served on the same posse, hunting for...
Dear Lew
Writing in red ink on ruled paper, Billy the Kid writes a letter to Lew Wallace, the governor of New Mexico.Written from Fort Sumner, on December...