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The Fatal Bullet

The Fatal Bullet

There are a lot of Old West items floating around in the world of collectors—including the bullet that killed gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. Bill...

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A Bad Reputation

A Bad Reputation

Martin Mrose is usually painted as an Old West rustler and thief who got what was coming to him in June of 1895.  Several lawmen filled him full of...

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Jerome, Arizona

Jerome, Arizona

Jerome, perched precariously on the slopes of cone-shaped Cleopatra Hill is a popular tourist attraction today. Despite some occasional bickering...

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Doc Does Dallas

Doc Does Dallas

New Year’s 1875 found Doc Holliday celebrating at the St. Charles Saloon in Dallas, once his home base but he had moved to Denison.  The revelries...

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Harry Wheeler

Harry Wheeler

During the Spanish-American War, Harry Wheeler was a member of Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders but not with the Arizona Squadron. He enlisted with the...

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Arbuckles

Arbuckles

Long before Matt Dillon, Chester and Miss Kitty wrapped their hands around a warm cup, coffee was a staple on the frontier.  In 1849 while surveying...

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Esteban Ochoa

Esteban Ochoa

The Confederate occupation of Arizona began when Captain Sherrod Hunter and his “Arizona Rangers,” numbering some fifty to a hundred men rode into...

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Commodore Perry Owens

Commodore Perry Owens

Commodore Perry Owens drifted down to Texas in the early 1870s then on to Indian Territory where he took a job on the Hilliard Rogers ranch near...

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Al Jennings

Al Jennings

The Jennings gang has become the model for outlaw incompetence in the Old West. They did, however, manage to provide some comic-relief to lawmen....

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A Name to Remember

A Name to Remember

Bee Ho Gray is pretty much forgotten today, but he had a 50-year entertainment career in Wild West shows, vaudeville, carnivals/circuses, radio and...

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