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...
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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...
Kit Carson: History and the Myth
In October 1849, a trader named James White, his wife Ann and their infant daughter were traveling on the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico when they...
Joe George, Grant Wheeler and the Flying Pesos Train Robbery
One of Arizona’s zaniest train robberies took place five miles west of Willcox on January 30th, 1895 when two cowboys named Joe George and Grant...
Arizona Myths and Legends
These are some popular myths about the Grand Canyon State. Actually there are hundreds of lost mines in Arizona. The Gunfight at OK Corral was...
Border? What Border?
Texas Rangers go after rustlers in Mexico. November 20, 1875. Captain Leander McNelly leads a force of Texas Rangers into Mexico to retrieve more...
A Reputation that Kills
Tom Horn dies for a murder he may not have committed. November 20, 1903. Tom Horn--one day short of his 43rd birthday--is hanged in Cheyenne, WY....
Testimony in Bed
Virgil Earp tells his side of the OK Corral shootout. November 19, 1881. The Earp-Holliday preliminary hearing moves to the Cosmopolitan Hotel....
Arizona’s Colorful Communities
Arizona has more than its share of colorful towns, places and characters. Up near Wikieup is a place called Nothing. It used to have a saloon called...
Prescott’s Palace
Saloons in the Old West played an important role in the lives of lonely men. They were social gathering places where they could belly up to the bar...
The Great Prescott Fire
Fires were always a menace to frontier towns. The boomtowns of Bisbee, Jerome, and Tombstone all burned to the ground more than once during their...
Passing of a Legend
Doc Holliday: 1851-1887. A prematurely aged, retired dentist, 36 years old, dies alone in a Glenwood Springs, CO, hotel room on November 8, 1887....