Inside History
The Big Fight

The Big Fight

It takes something for an Old West shootout to be called “The Big Fight.” That’s the handle they stuck on a free-for-all in Tascosa, Texas, in the...

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Hit by a Volcano

Hit by a Volcano

E.E. Phelps and F.A. Tipple left Lance Graham for dead, covered in ashes, facedown in the snow. Carrying his 200-pound body down the hill would have...

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Upping the Ante

Upping the Ante

The Cow-boy and Earp factions were already at loggerheads in the fall of 1881.  A stagecoach robbery took things to another level. On the night of...

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