January 18, 1863--US troops torture and murder Apache war chief Mangas Coloradas in southwest New Mexico. He had come to them under a flag of truce,...
Mollie Brennan is best know for being shot to death by Melvin King in Sweetwater, Texas. Bat Masterson, wounded by the same bullet that ended...
In the spring of 1878, Deputy J.J. Webb helped Sheriff Bat Masterson arrest Dave Rudabaugh for an attempted train/depot robbery at Kinsley, Kansas....
"Sheet-Iron Jack" Allen, was a California horse thief who wore an iron vest when plying his trade. Jack earned his nickname after surviving four...
During the Civil War cavalry troopers carried their carbines in what were called sockets. These were leather rings only about three or four inches...
American Indian life was steeped in ritual. These rituals varied from tribe to tribe and played an important role in their daily life. The Hopi for...
William Cruzan made a name for himself as a member of the Wild Bunch. But his criminal beginnings came years before, in 1888, outside an Illinois...
There’s an irony to a train robbery pulled by Kid Curry and two accomplices on June 7, 1904. They stopped the Denver and Rio Grande near Parachute,...
Over the years, beginning with Pierpont Bicknell in 1892 and others, including Sims Ely, Barney Bernard, Oren Arnold, Barry Storm, Ray & Lizzie...
Procopio Bustamante had a bandit pedigree. His uncle was famed outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, who became a hero to the young man. After Murrieta was...
For several years in the 1870s, Tiburcio Vasquez was one of California’s most successful and wanted bandits. He was held up as a “Robin Hood”...
Outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez was hanged in San Jose, California on March 19, 1875. Afterwards, his body was buried at the Santa Clara Mission Cemetery,...