There are many stories of good-bad men in the Old West and one of the more interesting is Frank Canton. He was born, Joe Horner. Horner drifted into...

Papa Nicholas had his own violent run-ins… On November 27, 1881, the patriarch of the Earp clan, Nicholas, went to a bank in San Bernardino,...

The Earps’ father had a reputation for bad behavior. In May 1864, Nicholas Earp—the father of Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, etc.—led a wagon train from...

Nicholas Earp—constable and rum runner. In 1859, Nicholas Porter Earp—the father of the famed Fighting Earps—was a constable in Monmouth, Illinois....

That fateful day of August 2nd, 1876 when Jack McCall fired a fatal bullet into the back of Wild Bill Hickok’s head, a story is told that one of the...

The Jennings gang has become the model for outlaw incompetence in the Old West. They did, however, manage to provide some comic-relief to lawmen....

Jim Miller was a cool customer before he died Jim Miller—the famed Old West assassin—met his end in Ada, Oklahoma on April 19, 1909. He and three...

The story of how a famed killer didn’t murder his grandparents. The legend: an orphaned “Killin” Jim Miller murdered his grandparents when he was a...

Clarence E. Mulford's fictional character, created in 1904, "Hopalong Cassidy" was brought to the silver screen in 1935. The real Hopalong was a...