How small was the space that the fight took place in. How did anyone survive the battle? Were the guns back then really that inaccurate? Was...
Trivia About the Street Fight in Tombstone
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San Simon, Arizona
San Simon was established as the first Butterfield Overland stagecoach station inside the Arizona-New Mexico border early in 1859. Located on the...
Frontier Gamblers
"How did 1880's professional gamblers handle their money when they won big"? Bank it? Carry it? Bury it? We didn't know. First, let’s talk about...
The Notorious Thieving 13th
The “Notorious” 13th Territorial Legislature met in Prescott in January 1885. It was marked by a fight between Julius A. Brown and Lafayette P....
A First Brush with the Law
Billy the Kid gets caught holding stolen goods. September 23, 1875. Henry McCarty--later Billy the Kid--is arrested for the first time. He'd been...
A Pastor for Dodge
Ormond Wright takes on the Wickedest Little City. September 24, 1850. Ormond W. Wright is born in New Hampshire. When he moves west in his early...
Texas Insurrection
Juan Cortina takes Brownsville. September 28-30, 1859. Rancher Juan Cortina and up to 80 Mexican riders take over Brownsville, TX. The spark: the...
The Jackass Mail
In 1849 it took 166 days to travel coast to coast. By the 1860’s you could do it in 60 days. A decade later a train could make the trip in 11 days....
Discover American History in San Angelo Sponsored by Discover San Angelo
New opportunities for learning have sprouted in San Angelo. Make plans to come and see the recently unveiled San Angelo NAACP Buffalo Soldier...
Patrick Murphy’s One-Man Air Corps
A bright orange glow spread across the eastern New Mexico horizon on the morning of March 9th, 1916. The sleepy border town of Columbus was slowly...
Charles Poston’s Arizona Utopia
When one imagines pristine Arizona’s dry, desolate, sunbaked deserts in the 1850s it’s difficult to picture any of it as being a utopian Shangri La...
The Mourning of Billy the Kid
The death of his mother set him on the wrong trail. September 16, 1874. Catherine Antrim dies of tuberculosis in her home in Silver City, New Mexico...