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...
The County Seat War
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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...
Death of a Lawman
The murder of Sam Sixkiller. December 24, 1886. Sam Sixkiller--one of the best and most respected Indian lawmen of the West--is gunned down. On...
Holding Up the Town
The Vasquez Gang attacks Kingston, California. December 26, 1873--around 7pm. Tiburcio Vasquez and about 11 of his men raid the central California...
A Political Assassination
The revenge killing of an ex-Idaho governor. December 30, 1905. Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is fatally injured by a bomb that goes off...
The Aftermath of the Salt Wars
A mob exacts revenge on a Texas lawyer. December 13-18, 1877. The bulk of the war over salt lakes southeast of El Paso, near San Elizario. For...