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...
The Aftermath of the Salt Wars
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Buffalo Bill Takes the Stage
Cody uses his own story to draw audiences. December 16, 1872. Scouts of the Prairie takes the stage in Chicago. The show features writer Ned...
Take Your Medicine
Tom Folliard cashes in his chips. December 19, 1880. A posse led by Pat Garrett encounters Billy the Kid and friends at Fort Sumner, New Mexico....
A Robbery Gone Awry
The story of the Bisbee Massacre. December 8, 1883. Five men ride into Bisbee, Arizona to rob the Goldwater & Castaneda Mercantile. Things...
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...