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A Knight with the Widow Benton

A Knight with the Widow Benton

by | Aug 1, 2002 | Inside History

Many have claimed that Jesse James, America’s most notorious bandit, was a Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave to the poor. Others have refuted the claim. But how did this debate begin, and is there any proof that Jesse was a Robin Hood? Perhaps the greatest...
Alamo Myths

Alamo Myths

by | Feb 1, 2002 | Inside History

Only weeks after the 13-day siege and battle, contemporary newspapers provided conflicting accounts of what happened at the famous mission-fortress. And in the years that followed, painters, poets, writers and filmmakers provided multiple interpretations of Texas’...
Arikara Toll Gate

Arikara Toll Gate

by | Jan 1, 2002 | Features & Gunfights

It was in March of 1822 that the now-famous advertisement appeared in the Missouri Republican: TO ENTERPRISING YOUNG MEN.  The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three...
The Split

The Split

by | Nov 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

Almost five years had passed since the gas-lit world of saloons and gambling halls brought Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday together in Texas. They appear to have enjoyed each other’s company from the outset, but on the night of September 19, 1878, in Dodge City, Kansas,...
Vanished

Vanished

by | Oct 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, one foe the Confederacy did not anticipate was the Mescalero Apaches of western Texas and central New Mexico. Federal forces pulled out and headed east leaving the territory wide open. Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor of the...