Godfrey Gauss and Sam Wortley live behind the Lincoln Courthouse. Gauss lights his pipe and leaves his room, crossing th…
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A Violent 18 Months Brack Cornett wreaked havoc across Texas in the late 1880s.
Texas outlaw Brack Cornett had a short but violent run on the outlaw trail. Starting in May 1887, Cornett and gang leade…
Crimes on Emigrant Wagon Trains Getting to your destination safely wasn't a guarantee.
Emigrants heading west in covered wagons usually had a wagon master who knew the trails and had experience getting throu…
Rascals of Tombstone: Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne Two outlaws' Arizona misadventures.
After running away from the gunfight in the vacant lot near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ike Clanton made a desperate a…
Tumbleweed Wagons Old West jails on wheels.
They called them “tumbleweed wagons” because like their namesake, the Russian thistle, they seemed to wander aimlessly a…
What are “long-tailed heroes”? In the book Roughing It, Mark Twain refers to gunfighters as “long-tailed heroes.” What does that mean?
In the book Roughing It, Mark Twain refers to gunfighters as “long-tailed heroes.” What does that mean? Paul Gortarez Ph…
Did Billy the Kid Serve as an Interpreter for Irish Immigrants?
Did Billy the Kid serve as an interpreter for Irish immigrants? Marcil d’Hirson Garron Newhall, California Being of Iris…
Father and Son—Not So Close Old and Young John Selman had some major differences.
The relationship between John Wesley Hardin killer John Selman and his son, John Marion Selman (photo), was not very clo…
A Stormy Affair Wes Hardin’s girlfriend once drew down on him.
On August 6, 1895, gunman John Wesley Hardin nearly got into a strange shootout. He and his lover Helen Beulah Mrose wer…
Losing Control John Wesley Hardin’s ghost writer didn’t get credit for his autobiography.
By the time he died in August 1895, John Wesley Hardin had finished about 200 pages of his autobiography, up to the year…