Many of these early day silver screen cowboys had been real working cowboys earning $30 a month and found on western ranches from Texas to Montana....
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The First of the Silver Screen Cowboys
Edwin S. Porter’s, The Great Train Robbery hit the silver screen in 1903. Filmed in the wilds of New Jersey, it lasted just nine minutes. It was the...
What’s in a Name
In my humble opinion Johnny Ringo was probably the most fortunate outlaw when it comes to great names. That was his real name, but others evidently...
The Bird Cage Theater
Down on the corner of Allen Street and 6th Street was the Bird Cage, a theater that catered more to Tombstone’s working class. It was built by a...
Sometimes Life Imitates Art
Hollywood matinee idol William Boyd had a wicked reputation as a boozer, womanizer and hell-raiser. In time his career foundered; nobody wanted to...
Explore St. Joseph, MO Sponsored by St. Joseph
Home to 14 unique museums, 12 annual festivals, amazing architecture on the National Register of Historic Places, a thriving arts and music...
A Trail Blazer
But Jesse Chisholm didn’t use it for cattle… The Chisholm Trail is one of the most important and famous of the paths used to drive cattle from Texas...
Cop vs. Cop
A political argument got out of hand in Newton, KS. Billy Bailey was a cowboy who took a trail drive up to Newton, Kansas (photo) in 1871. After he...
Wild Bill Hickok
Was Wild Bill Hickok ever a Deputy U.S. Marshal? Hickok joined the army in April 1861. In 1864 he was working as a policeman for a Capt. Squires in...
Cattle Rustling
At the lower end of the rustling scale was subsistence rustling. One poor homesteader in Eastern Montana stole two of cattle baron Conrad Kohrs’...
The Babbitt Brothers and the CO Bar Ranch
It was a cold, wet February morning in 1886 when Dave and Billy Babbitt stepped down off the passenger train in the raw, boisterous railroad town of...
Two Men; Two Dead
A gunfight between an outlaw and a lawman killed both. Ed Short (picture) was marshal of Hennessey, Indian Territory and a deputy U.S. marshal in...