By and large there was a great deal of cooperation along the border between the Arizona Rangers and the Rurales under Colonel Emilio Kosterlitzky, a...
Weapons In The Court? A claim that the Earps and Holliday had guns during their hearing.
Will McLaury, brother of the late Frank and Tom first attended the Spicer Hearing into the OK Corral gunfight on November 4, 1881. In a letter, he...
Overwhelming Grief The McLaury’s brother suffered a great loss even before the gunfight.
Attorney Will McLaury was the older brother of Frank and Tom, two of the Cowboys killed at the OK Corral. He assisted out with the prosecution of...
The Death Of Ike Clanton Rustling his way to an early grave
After leaving Tombstone Ike moved his rustling operations to the White Mountains. As he did in Tombstone, Ike passed himself off as a successful...
Medicine Shows And Curing Ailments Come and witness the magical powers of .... medicine shows?
In the years before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, medicine show’s and wild curing ailments were popular. The contents of these miracle drugs...
Doc Holliday: Was he as good with a gun and a knife as he was portrayed in the movie “Tombstone”? Movies are to entertain, not necessarily to educate.
No he wasn't, but then neither was Johnny Ringo nor were most of the other so-call “shooting stars of the silver screen.” Movies are to entertain,...
All That Glitters… A miner sought an easy way to get rich.
John Stoefel had come to Colorado to get gold—any way he could. On April 7, 1859, just outside Denver, Stoefel shot and killed his brother-in-law,...
Hanging Pretty Juanita The only woman ever hanged in California.
It’s not clear just what her name was—she’s gone down in history as Pretty Juanita, but she may have been Josefa Segovia. She and her boyfriend...
Fannin At Goliad Facing overwhelming odds, though, Fannin and his troops surrendered the next day.
In early February 1836, James Fannin sailed from Velasco and landed at Copano with four companies of the Georgia Battalion, moving to join a small...
Brawling Broads Of Boom Town Competition between madams was especially keen out in the west Texas town of El Paso
Competition between madams was especially keen out in the west Texas town of El Paso where Redheaded Etta “Grasshopper” Clark and “Big Alice” Abbott...
The Donner Party Disaster The tragedy that befell the Donner Party in 1846 outranks them all ...
I don't know if anyone recorded the number of dishonest wagon masters, but in the hundreds of wagon trains heading to Oregon or California there...
A Will For Payback A McLaury brother wants to get the Earps and Holliday—any way he can.
Will McLaury is in Tombstone in November 1881. He’s joined the prosecution, trying to hang the Earps and Doc Holliday for the OK Corral shootout. ...