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Mysterious Dave and the Preacher

Mysterious Dave and the Preacher

One day a young man calling himself Brother Johnson came to town and soon his youth and enthusiasm was attracting large crowds. He dazzled them with...

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The Robber Revealed

The Robber Revealed

  “Captain” Bill Coe led a gang of rustlers and robbers that roamed the Oklahoma Panhandle into New Mexico and southern Colorado during the...

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Those Old B-Westerns

Those Old B-Westerns

Someone asked me the other day what it was like watching those B-Western movies in those little, cracker box theaters during the 1940s. Everyone who...

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Prescott’s Big Fire

Prescott’s Big Fire

Fires were always a menace to frontier towns. The boomtowns of Prescott, Bisbee, Jerome, and Tombstone all burned to the ground more than once...

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A Tragic Mistake

A Tragic Mistake

Captain Emmet Crawford was one of the tragic casualties of the Apache Wars.  In late 1885, he led a small force into Mexico, chasing Geronimo....

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