For the most part, the women did not want to leave friends, travel some 2,000 miles home and make that trek of several months. Most of it was...
Tragedy on the Oregon-California Trail
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Foot Under Glass
Executed outlaw George Lane’s appendage was nicely displayed. George Lane was nicknamed “Clubfoot” because of a bone deformity. He was in southern...
Revenge – A Dish Best Served Cold
Kid Curry took his time in avenging his brother’s death. January 1896. The outlaw Logan brothers have a beef with rancher Jim Winters near Landusky,...
You Can’t Go Home Again
A posse trailed outlaw Lonnie Logan back to where he grew up. Lonnie Logan was the younger brother of Harvey Logan—Kid Curry—and rode the outlaw...
Comancheros
The Comancheros were a mixed ethnicity of New Mexican merchants who traded with the Comanche, Kiowa, Lipan Apache and other Southern Plains people....
The Removal of the Civilized Tribes
During the early 1800’s there was a surge of white settlers moving into what was the states of todays, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama,...
The West’s First Female Gunfight
When the Legend Becomes the Truth Print the Legend There is a persistent myth that the first gunfight in the West between women occurred in Denver...
Bloody Bird Outlaw Bird Obenchain was a cold-blooded killer.
Charles Edward “Bird” Obenchain rode with King Fisher (photo) and his gang in south Texas in the early 1870s. He apparently was a bit bloodthirsty....
The Man Who Killed Kid Curry Stolen horses put Rolla Gardner on the outlaw’s trail.
Rolla Gardner had no plans to chase after some train robbers near Parachute, Colorado in June 1904. A posse was already on the trail. But then...
A Final Gift Pat Garrett gave a grave to his friend Ash Upson.
Ash Upson is best known as the ghost writer for at least part of The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid—ostensibly authored by Pat Garret. The two...
Did Billy the Kid and Jesse Evans Ever Have a Showdown?
They didn’t really “have it out” but they rode together briefly and later were on opposite sides in the Lincoln County War. The Kid might have been...
The Paterson Colt Revolver
The Colt Paterson was invented in 1831 by Samuel Colt and named the Paterson for the Colt company in Paterson, New Jersey. It was patented in 1836...