The story of the Bisbee Massacre. December 8, 1883. Five men ride into Bisbee, Arizona to rob the Goldwater & Castaneda Mercantile. Things...
A Robbery Gone Awry
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A Sign of Respect
The story of Wyatt Earp and a Jewish symbol. April 1882. Wyatt Earp--running from the Cochise County law after the Vendetta Ride--is in New Mexico,...
The Night of Blood
The lynching of Indiana’s Reno Gang. December 12, 1868. Approximately 50 masked men travel from Seymour, Indiana to New Albany. They quickly capture...
One Good Turn
A Merry Christmas at Ft.Yuma In 1849, Army engineer Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple rescued a young Yuma Indian girl who’d been lost in the desert of...
The Nogales Children’s Christmas of 1929
Mexican border “adjusted” to accommodate children at Christmas. On December 25, 1929, the U.S.-Mexican border was moved two blocks north to include...
Enter the Earps
The brothers come to Tombstone December 1, 1879. Wyatt, James and Virgil Earp enter Tombstone, Arizona in a search for their pots of gold. Just over...
Train Robbers Get Their Start
The Burrow Gang’s first train robbers is a qualified success. December 1, 1886. Jim (photo) and Rube Burrow hold up a train at Bellevue, Texas. They...
What’s In A Name?
Henry McCarty becomes The Kid… December 3, 1880. W.S. Koogler, co-owner of the Las Vegas Gazette, publishes a long article on crime in the Pecos and...
A Thing of Beauty Unsurpassed A cowboy tribute to the Christmas tree.
A cowboy tribute to the Christmas tree. A Christmas Tree was written by the late, great cowboy poet Baxter Black. And it’s very appropriate for this...
The Surprise Witness
H.F. Sills and the OK Corral hearing. November 22-23, 1881. Defense attorney Thomas Fitch (photo) calls HF Sills to the stand in the OK Corral...
They Called Him Bat…
The birth of an Old West legend. November 26, 1853. William Barclay (Bat) Masterson is born in Henryville, Quebec. He goes on to a varied career in...
The Sand Creek Incident
A surprise army attack turned into a massacre. November 29, 1864. An estimated force of 675 men of the 3rd Colorado Cavalry attack an Indian...