Augusta Tabor’s life with husband Horace wasn’t easy. They struggled from the 1850s through early 1880s, trying to make their fortune. Augusta was...
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Football near the O.K. Corral
George Parsons of Tombstone wrote this in his diary on January 12, 1882: “Grand football racket this afternoon on Fremont Street near Fourth. All...
Rocky Mountain Rails
The chance to get rich quick as a uniquely American article of faith was virtually born in the West. Almost since its beginning, America was the...
The Portrayals of Wyatt Earp
According to the film website IMDb, Wyatt Earp has been portrayed at least 67 times in Westerns, TV shows, docudramas and more. Bert Lindley was...
Jailhouse Rock
In the rough and tumble towns of early Arizona, churches, schools and jails were most conspicuous by their absence. Holbrook became the...
The Treacherous Murder of Captain Emmett Crawford
In January, 1902 when Tom Horn was being interrogated by U. S. Deputy Marshal Joe Lefors regarding the killing of young Willie Nickle he boasted...
The Rightful Writer
Stuart Lake is best known for writing the bio Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. After it was published in 1931, Lake spent much of his life in...
Captain Burt Mossman
Arizona greeted the arrival of the 20th century like a frontier Jekyle and Hyde. The communities like Phoenix and Tucson were becoming cosmopolitan...
The Explosion
Several people tried to help Wyatt Earp tell his life story, but nothing came of it. That changed after his death in 1929. With the publication of...
John Ford- True to Hollywood
Legendary director John Ford considered himself a student of history—especially Old West history. And he often told people how Wyatt Earp gave him...
Kosterlitzky: The Mailed Fist of Mexico
Perhaps nowhere in the annals of the wild border countey was there a more improbable character than Emilio Kosterlitzky. The son of a Russian...
The Duke and Dollor
John Wayne may or may not have liked horses, but he did have a favorite in his later years. The sorrel gelding was called Dollor—no “a”--and it was...