The Earp women were frantic when the guns went off. So when the OK Corral fight broke out, what were the Earp women doing? According to Virgil’s...
The Women Behind the Gunfight
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With a Gun on Her Hip
Allie Earp was armed after the OK Corral. March 20, 1882. A train carrying members of the Earp family was leaving the Tucson train station en route...
The Oregon Trail: Part 3
As traffic on the Oregon Trail increased, a bustling industry of frontier trading posts sprang up to supply food and equipment for the five-month...
The Oregon Trail: Part 2
Most wagons were about six feet wide and twelve feet long. They were usually made of seasoned hardwood and covered with a large, oiled canvas...
Original Billy the Kid Artwork: On Sale for the First Time Ever November 26th at 10:00 AM (Central Standard Time) Bob Boze Bell's Billy the Kid Artwork is available to buy for the first time ever.
For more than half a century, Bob Boze Bell has been infatuated with the life and times of Billy The Kid. In his book, The Illustrated Life and...
The Oregon Trail: Part 1
Though some American settlers had traveled to Oregon and California in the 1830s, West-bound wagon trains really started heading out in great...
William Hunsaker
One of the forgotten men of the OK Corral hearing was William Hunsaker. He was the law partner of the celebrated Tom Fitch—but he had his own...
Ed Tewksbury
It was the last act of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War—the killing of feudist Tom Graham, allegedly by his longtime enemy Ed Tewksbury (photo) in...
Tom Fitch
Tom Fitch (photo) is best known as one of the great lawyers of the Old West. He successfully defended the Earps and Doc Holliday at the OK Corral...
Paulino Weaver
Another Mountain Man who left his mark on the Southwest was Paulino Weaver. He was born Powell Weaver in White County, Tennessee, the son of a...
Henry Wickenburg
Gold prospector Henry Wickenburg had been frustrated in his attempts to find the yellow metal. He’d missed Captain Joe Walker’s expedition up the...
What They Read in the Old West
Francis Parkman was an essayist historian, writing about the Oregon Trail. He also lived with the Sioux Indians for six months and wrote about their...