If it could talk, what stories this old bar could tell. Wyatt Earp himself likely dispensed beer, wine and spirits from behind its mahogany facade...
Have Bar Will Travel
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Features & Gunfights
The Long Arm of the Law
Enforcing the law in the early West was a vocation for stout, fearless men. And yet there were at least three who extended the long arm of the law...
America Looks West
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one...
The Wild Bunch
Who was the Wild Bunch? What crimes can be attributed to the gang? And who participated in those crimes? These questions defy simple answers. Take...
Back at the Ranch
Buenos Aires, 1901 When Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Ethel Place arrived in Buenos Aires in late March 1901, they undoubtedly hoped to put...
The Last Ride
Early on the morning of November 3, 1908, Aramayo Francke & Company manager Carlos Peró left Tupiza with his teenage son, Mariano, and a servant...
Bogus Butches
The Internet auction service, eBay, is a hothouse of Butch and Sundance photographs. Images turn up on eBay with little more provenance than “You be...
Two Great Myths about Jesse James
Most Jesse James buffs take as gospel that the famous bandit invented the daylight bank robbery and that he was never arrested. Both of these...
The James Boys’
The ragged remnants of the James-Younger Gang rode south out of Northfield—six men on five horses. All of them were wounded (see sidebar, next...
Texas Rangers
Depending on who you believe, the Rangers in Texas began their existence in either 1823, only two years after Anglo-American colonists first settled...
The Myth of the Buffalo Stand
Lying atop a grassy knoll 400 yards downwind from a grazing herd, a bearded, unkempt hunter rests the barrel of his .50–caliber Sharps on a metal...
I Want To Be A Cowboy.
Imagine being an Indian boy wanting to be a cowboy, every day begging his father for a set of pistols, a holster and one of those red cowboy hats...