How Joe Felmer got even with some thieving Apache. The legends say Joe Felmer was an Army scout at Camp Grant. Some pesky Apaches had been sneaking...
Stubborn as a Mule
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Death of a Lawman
The murder of Sam Sixkiller. December 24, 1886. Sam Sixkiller--one of the best and most respected Indian lawmen of the West--is gunned down. On...
Holding Up the Town
The Vasquez Gang attacks Kingston, California. December 26, 1873--around 7pm. Tiburcio Vasquez and about 11 of his men raid the central California...
A Political Assassination
The revenge killing of an ex-Idaho governor. December 30, 1905. Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is fatally injured by a bomb that goes off...
The Aftermath of the Salt Wars
A mob exacts revenge on a Texas lawyer. December 13-18, 1877. The bulk of the war over salt lakes southeast of El Paso, near San Elizario. For...
Buffalo Bill Takes the Stage
Cody uses his own story to draw audiences. December 16, 1872. Scouts of the Prairie takes the stage in Chicago. The show features writer Ned...
Take Your Medicine
Tom Folliard cashes in his chips. December 19, 1880. A posse led by Pat Garrett encounters Billy the Kid and friends at Fort Sumner, New Mexico....
A Robbery Gone Awry
The story of the Bisbee Massacre. December 8, 1883. Five men ride into Bisbee, Arizona to rob the Goldwater & Castaneda Mercantile. Things...
A Sign of Respect
The story of Wyatt Earp and a Jewish symbol. April 1882. Wyatt Earp--running from the Cochise County law after the Vendetta Ride--is in New Mexico,...
The Night of Blood
The lynching of Indiana’s Reno Gang. December 12, 1868. Approximately 50 masked men travel from Seymour, Indiana to New Albany. They quickly capture...
One Good Turn
A Merry Christmas at Ft.Yuma In 1849, Army engineer Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple rescued a young Yuma Indian girl who’d been lost in the desert of...
The Nogales Children’s Christmas of 1929
Mexican border “adjusted” to accommodate children at Christmas. On December 25, 1929, the U.S.-Mexican border was moved two blocks north to include...