And shots ring out. October 26, 1881. As the Earps near the Cow-boys in a Tombstone empty lot, Doc moves into the street, holding the shotgun Virgil...
The Street Fight Begins
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Prelude to the Gunfight
The Earps and Cow-boys make their way to the empty lot… October 26, 1881. After being informed the Cow-boys are armed, Virgil Earp decides to make...
The Fleeting Image of Power
John Clum—mayor of Tombstone…for at time. January 4, 1881. John Clum is elected mayor of Tombstone, making him one of the most powerful men in the...
Death of a Hardcase
Cullen Baker dies the way he lived life—violently. January 6, 1869. Hardcase Cullen Baker and a pal are killed in Cass County, TX. Either the two...
The County Seat War
A shootout in Cimarron. January 12, 1889. The Gray County War in Kansas. A group of men from Ingalls--including Bill Tilghman--go to Cimarron. They...
A Good Game Spoiled
The poker game prior to the OK Corral shootout. The night before the Tombstone “Street Fight,” several of the men involved the next...
Let’s Make a Deal
Wyatt Earp’s attempt to placate the Cow-boys falls apart. In 1881, Wells Fargo secretly gave Wyatt Earp a free hand to put an end to stage robberies...
Western Art Week is Buzzing with the Return of The Russell Sponsored by the C.M. Russell Museum
Get your bidding paddles ready and save the date, March 14-16, 2024, because The Russell is back! After much anticipation, The Russell (the...
The Power of the Cow-Boys
A group of rustlers ran rampant in Cochise County. Before the Earp brothers arrived in Tombstone in late 1879, the Cow-boys had been rustling...
The Million Dollar Hangover
A rich discovery and the name of a new town. The story goes that prospector Charlie McMillan was a man strongly addicted to ardent spirits. One...
The Rendezvous
The great gatherings of the fur trappers Unique to the American trapping industry was the rendezvous system, dreamed and schemed by William Ashley...
Stubborn as a Mule
How Joe Felmer got even with some thieving Apache. The legends say Joe Felmer was an Army scout at Camp Grant. Some pesky Apaches had been sneaking...