By the latter part of the nineteenth century train robberies had become big business among western outlaws. During one period trains were being...
Outlaw George Curry was better known as “Flat Nose” because of a facial deformity. In the 1880s, he was a criminal mentor to Harvey Logan, who...
Bill Cruzan was an off and on member of the Wild Bunch. In the 1890s, he was primarily known as a rustler and spent three years in prison for...
Grand County (UT) Sheriff Jesse Tyler wasn’t expecting trouble on the morning of May 26, 1900. He and two deputies—on the lookout for members of...
I was reading 'Good Little Bad Man', the story of Colorado Charley Utter. It was noted that Charley had the habit, thought odd at the time, of...
Cigarettes and cigars have been around for a long time. Prior to the Civil War cigars ranked next to chewing tobacco in popularity. They were...
Chasing a stagecoach was mostly the stuff of Hollywood because it added more drama to the event. In reality, the stage robbers tried to find a...
Virgil Earp mostly live in the Southwest into California and Nevada. But he ended up in a grave in Portland, Oregon. Earp was married in 1860 and...
Ben Johnson was a cowboy who broke into Hollywood as a stuntman in the 1940s. He was the stunt double for Henry Fonda in 1948’s Fort Apache. ...
A Prescott, Arizona Territory posse was after George Wilson and his pal. They’d murdered a man in October 1877. Virgil Earp was deputized—his...
The Gatling Gun was a spring-loaded, multi-barrel, hand-cranked machine gun. Invented in 1861 by Richard Gatling. It fired 350 rounds a minute (if...
The original cowboys as we know them today, were the Mexican vaqueros. From Texas to California these superbly skilled horsemen could ride and rope...